Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-14 Thread Walter Landry
Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 570E that I would like to install Debian on. I have tried installing 2.1 (from CD and floppy) and 2.2 (from floppy) without success. What happens is the following: I get the rescue disk "welcome screen" and I hit enter to boot. It does the Loading root.b

Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-14 Thread Walter Landry
Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 570E that I would like to install Debian on. I have tried installing 2.1 (from CD and floppy) and 2.2 (from floppy) without success. What happens is the following: I get the rescue disk "welcome screen" and I hit enter to boot. It does the Loading root.

Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-08 Thread A.C. Almeida
Hi, why don't you have a look at Harkers "linux for laptop" pages at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ ? There are some links about TP 570 ... Bye Antonio

Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-07 Thread Greg Woods
Julian Melville wrote: > > >What I would like to end up with is a dualboot linux/win2K. Do I > > have to go through the Win2K loader like with NT or can I use LILO > > like with 95/98? You can use LILO to select Linux or NT, but... > only niggle for me is that on the Windows side, it thinks

RE: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-06 Thread Julian Melville
>What I would like to end up with is a dualboot linux/win2K. Do I > have to go through the Win2K loader like with NT or can I use LILO > like with 95/98? To answer this section - I am dual-booting Linux and Win2K 'Professional' on a Dell 7500 very successfully using a standard dual-boot LILO

Re: Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-06 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
>I get the rescue disk "welcome screen" and I hit enter to boot. It > does the > >Loading root.bin. >Loading linux. > >Then the screen flickers and it reboots. You say you tried with the CD as well? I have had similarish problems with installing linux from disk,

Debian on an IBM Thinkpad 570E

2000-06-06 Thread Per Knudsgaard
Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 570E that I would like to install Debian on. I have tried installing 2.1 (from CD and floppy) and 2.2 (from floppy) without success. What happens is the following: I get the rescue disk "welcome screen" and I hit enter to boot. It does the Loading root.b