[ltp] Partially killed my TP: Quick question, hopefully someone has a quick answer...

[David Grindrod]

I did not know you could buy a Thinkpad with Linux. Well you cannot in 
the UK. In fact your software  warranty is invalidated as soon as you 
put a second operating system on the machine. It would be really nice if 
IBM did support Linux on the laptops. I have an A31p and there was no 
choice about having Linux on it when I purchased it. I had to install 
myself although not a problem. Everything works apart from the internal 
modem.  It would be nice howver if it was possible  to buy a fully 
supported Linux Thinkpad.

Dave

Pam Huntley wrote:

>
>Well that's really interesting.  Did anyone here actually buy the Linux
>preloaded ThinkPads?  The recovery that came with them actually does
>repartition everything, it gives you linux on first partition, a swap
>partition, as well as a windows partition...  (an possilbly more, I don't
>remember).
>
>I'm glad to know you got your machine recovered okay.  I'll add this to my
>ever-growing list of things I need to know about Linux and ThinkPads.  :-)
>
>
>



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