[ltp] Preparing to install Thinkpad 380xd with Debian

[Dwaine Gonyier]

Hello All,

I have recently got tired of Win98 on my Thinkpad 380xd (2635-FAU), and have
decided to try to install Debian 3.0r1 on it.

I have some previous experience with Linux (from the 1.2.x kernel days...)
so I am not
afraid of UNIX. :)

I have a few questions for anyone who would care to help me out:

Is there a good, detailed how-to resource for installing Linux on a 380xd
(including getting all of the bells and whistles working--APM, hibernate,
port replicator with extra cardbus slots, compiling the kernel with the
right APM options, etc.)?

Also, I have a cardbus based fast Ethernet card that I believe is supported
as a "tulip" device (its a SMC card--don't have the model in front of me at
the moment.). If I understand correctly, it installs as a PCI hotplug device
under recent Linux distributions. I also have a PCMCIA PnP based modem. Is
it possible to use these devices interchangeably under Linux? Should I have
either installed during the installation
of Linux for autodetection purposes?


Also, does Linux still support smbfs for mounting remote CIFS shares as
though they are
NFS exports? Or is there something newer and better? I know about Samba, but
when I used
it way back whenever, the client side of it was more like and FTP tool
rather than a
filesystem mount point.

Thanks in advance. Hopefully I will be able to pull off a smooth install. :)

PS: Any partitioning advice? It has a 5GB HD. I will probably keep a 200MB
DOS partition
for the hibernate file. For usage patterns, I like to compile and use
graphics processing
tools such as NETPBM (on SourceForge) and I am an extensive user of TCL/TK
scripts and
the various packages for that environment.

PPS: Does anyone know if TightVNC 1.2.8 behaves at all with the various
suspend and hibernate modes?

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Dwaine Gonyier
dwaine_gonyier@mindspring.com