Linux on IBM Thinkpad 560?
Sheldon Dubrowin
dubrowin at bbn.com
Thu Mar 4 19:23:41 EST 1999
Hey Mark,
I have a Thinkpad 760EL, that runs slackware. I don't have the
sound working (I have a friend with the same machine that does), but I
do have X working ok. My machine is a P133 with 72MB RAM. At one point
I did have RedHat installed for about 1/2 an hour. I couldn't find any
of the config files, the distributions were a little different.
There is actually a faq for laptops and I think there was one
specifically for the stinkpad.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Shel
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:51:37PM +0000, Mark Spencer wrote:
> I have an older IBM Thinkpad 560 - specifically a 2640-50A. This
> machine has a 100mhz pentium, 8meg ram, and DSTN display. I'm
> wondering if people have installed any of the Linux distributions on a
> similar machine with success? I do not have any Linux boxes at work,
> and thought it would be neat to get it up and running on this Thinkpad
> so I can show it to fellow IT/MIS people in other offices. More
> specifically I'm considering picking up the Redhat distro w/ manual. I
> guess the major concern would be support for the 560's sound and
> graphics chipset? I would have to install Redhat using a parallel port
> cdrom drive ..
>
> Thanks for the help ..
>
> Mark
> dreadnought at mediaone.net
>
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