Trying to sort out behavior of a CD-R/DVD combo drive on my IBM Thinkpad (R32).
First, as of today the DMA flag stopped having the expected effect. I tested
it after it had a hard time reading a Debian disk (via Cheapbytes). "hdparm
-tT" showed no difference in buffered read speed (1.7 Mbytes/
> So Debian it is.
>
> Because the laptop comes with only a DVD/CDROM player I will have to
> install from CDROM. I will first start with a netinstall booted from
> CDROM. Does anybody know a iso with ext3 support?
The CheapBytes disks gave me the option of ext2, ext3 or Reisfer fs. I starte
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 05:08:25PM -0400, Jacob Tennant wrote:
> 1. Whenever I start the machine it goes straight into GNOME desktop. How do
> I stop that?
Look at the rc.init scripts. REMOVE the one that's labeled gdm. When you
start the machine, it will go into text mode.
>
> 2. I need to
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:11:34PM -0400, Jacob Tennant wrote:
> Is there a list for IBM laptops running linux???
Yes.
Check http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
Check www.linux-laptop.net. It has'war stories' sorted by manufacturer and
model. I use it to guide my own purchases.
My prior two computers were Toshiba Satellites. Mandrake installed painlessly
on them.
If you're new to Linux, you may want to buy something like Partition Magic or
Parti
>
> I use and recommend IBM. Aside from the WinModem[1][2] and the embedded
> security chip[3] everything just works.
>
> Also, at least in .au, IBM are the *only* laptop people who have given
> good service. Every fault I have ever had they gave me no grief and
> shipped out a replacement part
What I did was to change the configuration file /etc/apt/sources.list so that
wherever it said "stable," it now said "testing."
"Testing" is what will become sarge.
Then "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" bring you up to speed.
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:20:41AM -0400, Michael Rose wrote
Trying to sort out behavior of a CD-R/DVD combo drive on my IBM Thinkpad (R32).
First, as of today the DMA flag stopped having the expected effect. I tested it after
it had a hard time reading a Debian disk (via Cheapbytes). "hdparm -tT" showed no
difference in buffered read speed (1.7 Mbytes/
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