ThinkPad Question

[mtolman at cyberdude.com (Mark)]

MCA is supported in 2.2.x.  My problem is that I can boot 2.2.x and see the
harddrive, but I don't have a root partition on it yet and can't fdisk or
mount it with out one (catch 22).  I've tried creating one on floppy and
booting it, but I get VFS errors.  I clearly need more research on creating
a 2.2.x boot floppy and root partition disk on a 2.0.36 machine.

It's an old 720.

Thanks
Mark

At 09:24 AM 3/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I think that you might find that micro channel isn't supported, though (
>if my feeble memory is working correctly today )
>
>Charley
>
>Sheldon Dubrowin wrote:
>> 
>> This web site has linux specifics for laptops and also has a section
>> where it lists laptops and special things that may need to be done to
>> get linux to work on them.  There are also a couple howtos in there.
>> 1 stop shopping for your linux configurations! 8)
>> 
>>         Shel
>> 
>> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 10:42:04PM -0500, Mark Tolman wrote:
>> > I have a Micro Channel Thinkpad on which I would like to load Linux
>> > 2.2.x.  I am having a hard time getting started.  I have attempted
>> > creating 2.2.x boot disks from my RedHat installation, I have done a
>> > 'make zdisk', I have done several other things too.  If someone has had
>> > some experiance installing Linux on old thinkpads, please contact me.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> > Mark Tolman
>> >
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