[ltp] Slackware on T42?

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

mIChelle,

the word ubuntu means something to you but to me means major 'suckage'.

i think i will leave warty and the other farm animals by themselves to
argue over the incredibly stupid subject of a splash screen.....weeks of
that crap
on a technical list. i am very glad to get off ubuntu.

btw,,,as a person of african heritaget, the distro has completely NOTHING to
with that experience. a software distro isnt going to make people anymore
tolerant of  others anymore that ineffective legislation has no effect.

v/r,

~piranha


<quote who="Michelle Klein-Hass">
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:23 am, /dev/rob0 wrote:
>> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 11:06, Bob Alexander wrote:
>> > PS Why don't you try Debian sarge instead of Slackware ? If you have
>> > a good internet connection use the sarge netinst iso image (around
>> > 120MB) and then abandon yourself to the luscious world of
>> > dpkg/apt-get/synaptic :)
>>
>> I don't always see that as an advantage. :)
>>
>> Actually if I had a decent hard drive on my new old Thinkpad, I would
>> have tried Ubuntu this time. I just don't have enough space to dual-
>> boot.
>>
>> Which reminds me ... do you know how to get the Ubuntu Live CD to boot
>> on a Thinkpad? Mine (600X, 2645-9FU) boots the Ubuntu install CD just
>> fine, but nothing I tried on the Live CD worked. (Checked md5sum of
>> ISO, burned it twice, tried all the options, every time it crashed
>> early in booting the kernel.)
>
> I was able to get a ThinkPad 570e to boot both to the LiveCD and the
> Installer. Basically a 570e is the same thing as a 600x. I was using the
> pressed CDs from Canonical, though.
>
> Does your ThinkPad boot with a Knoppix CD-R? You might want to try that.
>
> BTW apt-get *does* have ownage over just about any way of updating a Linux
> install. This includes RPM, YUM, and that Mandrake-only thingy whose name
> escapes me right now. It's so simple...so Zen. Try it, you'll like it.