[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 on a Thinkpad R30

[Richard Neill]

Good luck...

The EPROM problem may or may not be fixed (depends who you ask!). At any 
rate, all you need to do is check that you DON'T install the lm_sensors 
nor glms packages. I recently installed Mdk 8.2 - Mandrake are aware of 
this and as a result,  lm_sensors is not installed by default. 
(lm_sensors is normally a kde requirement, but Mandrake have 
deliberately 'broken' this.)

A quick test is to type 'sensors-dete<tab>' at the prompt. If this 
autocompletes to 'sensors-detect', then you are in danger - DO NOT press 
enter afterwards! Otherwise, you're probably safe.

As for the hidden partition, Lilo/Grub will sort it out. However, it's 
not much use, as if you run it, it will reformat your entire drive back 
to factory settings. And it's a waste of space :-)  (You can always 
order a recovery CD from IBM if you want one). The other thing is, I 
have reinstalled linux twice (once to move from 8.0->8.1, and once to 
move 8.1->8.2 and ext2->resierfs. )I had some trouble with sorting out 
partitions on the 2nd/3rd installs due to that hidden partition hda2.
In the end, I deleted it, and all ran smoothly.

Best wishes, and enjoy Mandrake!

Richard

P.S. One last recommendation - Mandrake 8.2 comes with Mozilla 0.97. You 
can get the latest one (RC1.0) , packaged up for Mandrake via the ftp 
mirrors, from the 'Cooker' branch. But, you will save yourself some 
hassle with dependencies if you don't install Mozilla at all from the 
cdroms.





ZeiMoT wrote:
> Greetings all TP owners,
> 
> I just go myself a Thinkpad R30.
> I planned (or rather I plan) to install Mandrake Linux 8.2 on this
> machine. After I had read something about some machines got their EPROMS
> damaged when using some kernelconfigs (I2C I think) I decided to ask if
> the R30 model EPROM (or FLASH) can be damaged in the same way.
> 
> Secondly, the first 'hidden' partition which contains the
> backupinstallation procedures might be interesting to have access to in
> the future. Is that partition able to boot just by adding it to LILO ? Or
> is the original MBR necessary to be able to restore the original setup of
> the machine?
> 
> 
>   -=< ZeiMoT >=-
> 
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