[ltp] Fedora on X60s -- newbie pointers

[Richard Neill]

Dear Adrian,

Glad you got it working. If you want to add your experiences on 
thinkwiki.org, do feel free.

> 2. Older versions of Fedora (I tried 4 first) have severe problems 
> installing on the X60s.

That would be the SATA support. If you ever need to, then enable "Legacy 
IDE mode" for the disk controller in the BIOS.
> 
> 3.  Don't even think of trying to handle the single DVD image of FC6 on 
> a Windows XP machine.  Mine went seriously haywire trying to check the 
> SHA1SUM, and could not burn the unchecked file.  Seems the file is just 
> too big for XP. Use the 4-CD download instead.

Is XP still using FAT32? That has a 4GB per file limit.

In general, if you have a fast internet connection, you're best off to 
only download the first CD of the installer, and then install a minimal 
system; after that, install the extra packages using apt/yum.

This is actually quicker, since you don't end up downloading the 
packages which you don't install, just to burn onto CD, but never use.

> 
> Hope this helps.  Any hints about controlling screen brightness without 
> recompiling the kernel much appreciated. Likewise for enabling wireless.

Doesn't the Fn-HOME and Fn-END key combination work? This is controlled 
by the BIOS, not by ACPI. Otherwise, you want to look at 
/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness

As for wireless, look in thinkwiki.org.

HTH,

Richard

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