[ltp] installing linux on IBM tp 600

[Buchan Milne]

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Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I've had good luck with Mandrake 9.x on a 600 and 600x. 4Gb is fine,
but I'd
> suggest limiting the number of Window managers.  The autodetect
doesn't seem
> to handle sound very well on either machine for me.

Is your BIOS set to "fast boot" or not? This is basically the "OS
supports PNP" option you find on desktop BIOS's, which should be off
(unless you're running a 2.6 kernel), so on the Thinkpads, should not be
set to fast boot. In my case, switching fast boot off meant everything
was detected on Mandrake 9.1.

  Knoppix also works on
> both machines (sound too), but I haven't installed to the hd.  150Mb
RAM is
> OK, but more would be better.
> Paul
>
> On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:02 pm, Nils Houben wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>I am totally new in the linux-world. This year i start getting
>>linux-lessons in my school - so i want to have my own linux to test the
>>things we do in school.
>>
>>My Thinkpad 600 has 500 Mghz and about 150 MB RAM, the question now is
>>which linux to install, and where to get it!
>>As i said I am totally new to the linux world, but i am very curious and
>>optimistic about linux. Though i need an easy to install linux and it
>>should be relativly small (the hdd has 4GB).
>>I would be very thankful for any help in this case....
>>

Other considerations are what software you will be using. Some
distributions specialise in certain aspects. My choice, Mandrake, has a
lot of contributed software, including support for some
Thinkpad-specific features (tpb is in contrib, the Thinkpad drivers are
in the update kernel for 9.1, tpctl will be in 9.2, tp4utils will be in
9.2 contrib), have a selection of kernels (9.1 has the stock kernel,
plus the multimedia kernel in contrib, and a 3rd kernel with some
additional feature patches), and includes a lot of software that I find
useful (which in some cases can otherwise only be found in Debian
unstable, and in others not at all).

If you need to run commercial sofware however, it may be less effort to
run Redhat, since most 3rd-party vendors compile for Redhat (although
you can normally get the applications to run without too much effort on
other distros).

Regards,
Buchan

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