[ltp] Thinkpad 760XL - Linux Install Information

[Philippe Corboz]

Hi,

I have been experimenting along the same lines as you (Slack 9.0, though),
on an 760CD. My harddisk is of the 1.2 M variety, and I'm shoehorning
Slackware into a 600MB partition.

I got a mini-mini-mini system now booting off said partition, all is well in
text mode, but I get no framebuffer ... and I want that for X11.

Now, since fbdev must (apparently) be compiled into the kernel, would the
conclusion be appropriate that I need to use another kernel?

If yes, is there a way around building my own? Any ideas?

Philippe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Southerland" <micah_death@hotmail.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: [ltp] Thinkpad 760XL - Linux Install Information


> Here we go... I have found a better way to install Slackware on my
Laptop...
>
> The 760XL has the delima of not being able to boot directly off of the CD.
> Switching from Floppy Drive to CDRom during install normally fails (or
Linux
> doesn't even detect the CDRom because it doesn't exist yet..... [Floppy
and
> CDRom are swapable only])
>
> Here is what I have done:
> Install DOS 6.22 (or PCDos or FreeDOS or any DOS =) - On a 15 Mb
partition.
> Copy Loadlin.exe, bare.i\bzimage, and the initrd.img files from the
> Slackware CD (9.1)
> then run:
>        loadlin c:bzimage root=/dev/ram rw initrd=c:initrd.img
>
> NOTE: it seems you have to fresh boot and NOT load the cdrom drivers in
> order for linux to detect it.
>
> This way I get the max potential from my 2 Gb hd... My other methods
> requried me to have a 300 Mb DOS Partition for the Slackware files.
>
> Micah
>
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