Thinkpad X220 and X230 probably are too much modern for Hurd. In my case, I use Thinkpad T60 (and similar models, like R60e) and T410.
These models have good compatibility with Hurd El mié, 27 ene 2021 a las 15:52, Joshua Branson (<jbra...@dismail.de>) escribió: > Damien Zammit <dam...@zamaudio.com> writes: > > > On 26/1/21 4:00 pm, Damien Zammit wrote: > >> I burnt the cd to physical media and tried to install natively on X220 > thinkpad. > > > > I also tried the same image on a physical X230 thinkpad, this time the > disk was detected by gnumach, > > but it failed to detect the CD ROM so the installer could not proceed, > and there was no way to make rumpdisk > > find the ATAPI drive because it was already controlled by gnumach. > > I'm planning on purchasing an older laptop to run the Hurd on actual > hardware. Any recommendations? The mentioned Thinkpads X220 and the > X230 seem like good candidates. Are there other options? > > Ideally I want something that others may want to buy. I know that the > Hurd is not so stable for everyday use-ability... > > > Damien > > > > -- > Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) > Sent from Emacs and Gnus > https://gnucode.me > https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels > https://propernaming.org > "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help > enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar > >