[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

[Richard Neill]

Jaime Iniesta wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently a Fedora Core 4 user on my PC. I'm thinking about trying a 
> different distro on my new Thinkpad R52.
> 
> I would like to know what distros are you using, and if there is a "best 
> distro" for Thinkpads. I'm thinking about installing Debian Sarge, maybe 
> Ubuntu.
> 

Personally, I like Mandrake; I've heard good things about Ubuntu. 
However, if you make sure that you partition things carefully, you can 
make the process much easier.

Eg 1:

/  /home  swap		

This means you can reinstall onto / without messing up your data. (If 
you really want to see how the different distros work, you may want to 
create a new user for each distro, since the defaults for $HOME will differ)


Eg 2:

/  /home swap  /spare


Then, install the new distro (or upgrade) onto /spare without destroying 
your existing install.


If you are really careful, and arrange / and /spare to be adjacent 
partitions, you will be able to merge them later if you wish.

I hope this is a useful suggestion. Good luck!

Regards

Richard