From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 11:30:35 EST
For what its worth:
I don't know anything about a 560 but I just went through this on two
380XDs.
Loaded Mandrake 8.1 and even though I've had good luck with earlier
versions,
8.1 ran like a ruptured turtle!.
It probably loaded and started some service that had a problem.
I did not stop to figure out why, but loaded Redhat 7.2 over it.
RH runs great!! and it was a real nobrainer to install.
Billy and Steve should really be worried about this.
BTW, the bios limit on these machines is 8.2 G and I have no trouble
seeing and
using a 12G HD.
Triple booting to W98, W2K and RH.
BTW2 If you have a CD rom drive, both distros will boot from it.
Installing from 10 floppies is painfull.
Cheers, Bert
Jeddy Lin wrote:
> Hello again, For those of you running Linux on a 560-series machine
> (or any other Thinkpad with no factory cd-rom for that matter)... Can
> we have an informal survey on the way you loaded your particular
> flavor of Linux? (I'm *this* close to going out and buying floppies so
> I can load Debian completely off the 10 floppies or so that it
> takes...)Thanks. =) - Jeddy
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