On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > So I got myself one of these nifty things. It's really nice but it won't > be perfect until I can get Debian on it.
Thanks to all those who replied. I now have the thinkpad dual-booting between Win2K (though I don't imagine much use for it.) and Debian. Hooking up a CD or floppy drive I'd already rejected as it would have been too boring and cost extra money. The suggestion to use a USB keychain drive was a good one. I definitely want to get one of these to store my GPG key and other sensitive data on but I'll do that later some time. I decided to go with Installing via TFTP. It is very straightforward (though the documentation I found was as usual not 100% accurate.) The one hurdle I faced was shrinking the windows partition to make room for Linux. Luckily IBM uses FAT32 instead of NTFS so I was able to use GNU parted. The Debian boot floppies don't have parted (the new Installer I'm told will.) so I had to actually start the installation process with Red Hat 9. After resizing and partitioning the drive I stopped that and started the Debian install. It went without a hitch. Even installing LILO on the MBR was uneventful which impressed me because I recall you had to do some voodoo with boot sectors to get Windows and Linux to co-exist in the past. After installing a minimal woody system I dist-upgraded it to sarge. So far though the only things I haven't configured are the wireless networking and the modem. The first should be very easy but the second could be a problem as it is a winmodem. But neither is very important to me right now. Everything else configured without a hitch. I'll write a full step-by-step HOWTO soon. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
