A few weeks ago I sent a "frustrated about installing packages" message, then had to fly off to Calfornia twice a two weeks and forgot to say THANKS to the people that reminded me to check simple things before pulling my hair out. :) My package install problem was the classic "looks like it's there, but really isn't...completely....just reinstall it and it's fine" issue. Beyond all that, just wanted to add a success story to the mix: "Yes, Virginia, You CAN run Linux on a ThinkPad 755CD" The ThinkPad 755CD, circa 1996, seems to be a popular $2-300 machine on eBay. At laest, that's where I got mine. The base system is: 486 DX4-100, 810mb hd, 8mb ram, swappable floppy and cd-rom, 2 PCMCIA Type II slots, and the internal IBM mwave modem/sound card combo. First, assume you will never get the internal modem/sound card working until IBM learns to share their specs with the people trying to write mwave drivers. Instead, go out and get a cheapo fax-modem and/or ethernet card. I have both. No problems detecting any off-the-shelf cards. While I've heard many tales of successfull installs with just the base hardware configuration, I dropped $80 on a 32MB memory card, bringing the total ram to 40mb. Combine that with a just _sick_ swap partition (put it this way, I wasn't paying attention and typed 2 zeros instead of 1, then decided "oh what the heck, I'll keep it"). Now, according to all of the documentation I've read, in order to get the floppy to work and the initial bootdisk/ramdisk pair to go through the install process, one must specify thinkpad=floppy. Of course, that always KILLED the install for me, so I must have the red-headed step-child of ThinkPads, because my floppy works fine without that config option. Go figure. In short, this little machine hasn't crashed since the install, is Enlightened, and creates images in Gimp faster than the super-slick Macs that the our artists use. That really ticks 'em off. :) Oh, it's a Slackware 4.0 install, purely because I like the "Get Slack" bumper stickers. I'm a sucker for advertising. Anyway, yay Linux! :) - Julie /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Julie Meloni i2i Interactive (east) Technical Director 703-813-5526 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.i2ii.com /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
