Re: Newbie Thinkpad question
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again
> > (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff,
> > then put CD drive in when it asks for it..
>
> I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and
> Floppy drives, so if you boot from the floppy, you can't put the CD in
> because there is no CD-ROM DRIVE in the machine. If you turn off the
> ThinkPad and install the CD-ROM DRIVE, you cannot boot from the floppy.
> Catch 22.
>
> It must be possible to install Linux on a Thinkpad, because I have read
> that people have done it, but no one has touched on this particula
> point. Maybe I'm missing something.
I have Thinkpad 770 with Debian linux 2.0. (hamm).
The floppy disk is a problem. Infact this damn think won't boot correctly
from install diskettes. The solution is to use dos partition and loadlin.
After you've made up the kernel you wanted you can of course make the
linux bootable directly from hard disk.
Installing debian on Thinkpad requires some pioneer mentality, but I can
assure you that it's well worth of it.
If you have any debian on Thinkpad related stuff. I can try to help you.
Yours,
Timo Multamaki timo.multamaki@DataFellows.com
Support Specialist +358-40-5479523 (Mobile, 24h on)
Data Fellows Ltd. LARP & RPG Freak, check www.wanderer.org
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