Hi, At Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:31:22 +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:56:44PM -0700, River Y. Liu wrote: > > Does someboby have the experience of installing Linux on Ibm Thinkpad > > X22? My machine is Windows 2000 preinstalled, which can't be booted in > > Linux from pure Dos mode. I didn't buy Ultra base because I have > > network at home. I probably only use it for installing. I just bought an > > IDE 2.5" to 3.5" adapter and tried to put the hard disk of the X22 into > > my desktop computer. After installed Linux and put it back to the > > laptop, I found out I can't boot, it prompted "disk I/O error". So it > > failed. Somebody has any idea? > > I did exactly the same with my X21, and it worked just fine. Did a basic > install just to get basic networking up and running, moved the HD back > to the X21, and completed the install over the network.
> Not very helpful I know, but the install in other computer approach is > the correct one to take. I installed Debian potato in Thinkpad X21 using recovery area. X21 (and also newer thinkpad) has 'recovery disk area'. This area is formatted as FAT, so I installed 'loadlin' and some files into this area. Then I booted up from recovery disk (of course I renamed config.sys and autoexec.bat). And there is better solution if you have USB-Floppy drive. I created Woody USB-floppy installer image. You can download from 'http://www.debian.or.jp/~kmuto/usb/'. Write *.bin image by rawrite2 and boot, type 'linux root=/dev/sda' on 'boot:' prompt. Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
