[ltp] Slackware on T42?

[Bert Haskins]

Bob Alexander wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
>
> You can do an experiment. Burn the latest Knoppix live CD

FWIW There is another "live" Debian based cd that has worked better on 
my Thinkpads than
Knoppix........ Your mileage  may  vary.......
It's Mepis 2004 and all of following is true for it also.

> pop it into your laptop and play with it as much as you like to get a 
> real life, first hand impression. It will not touch your hard disk in 
> any way. After that you could either go for a sarge netinst or if you 
> are a lazy guy which doesn't mind having some 2000 packages installed 
> you can do a Knoppix hd install which basically clones Knoppix on your 
> hard disk. After that you are left with a fairly standard Debian 
> system which you can tweak at your own leisure. I personallly like a 
> minimal sarge netinst and then select the packages I need one by one.
>
> HTH,
> Bob
>