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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:46:13 -0600, luni@luni.org wrote:
>
> > From: Richard@RushLogistics.com [mailto:Richard@RushLogistics.com]
> >
> >
> > For those of us who witnessed it at installfest today, we're still
> > scratching our heads, because for over four hours some of luni's best
> > and brightest -- myself not included -- toiled with getting the above
> > named thinkbad to boot into install mode. No matter if we
> > tried to boot
> > from the cd or from a boot floppy or whether we tried Redhat, Mandrake
> > or Slackware we continually got the error message: boot
> > failed. I know
> > I am leaving out some of the details that we encountered I was hoping
> > that some of the poor soul's who toiled with this problem and
> > who have a
> > much better understanding of what happened and what did not happen,
> > could fill in the blanks better that I. Once again, thank
> > you very much
> > to those who have helped so far. If anyone has any ideas
> > please submit
> > them.
> >
>
> I seem to recall for some Thinkpads there is a special switch for the
floppy
> boot disk in order for the floppy install to boot correctly. I didn't
have
> that problem with my antique 755c. I'll see if I can dig up the
switches....
>
> Ken
> -=-
That's pretty funny, I was just checking my Luni-bin(TM) to write about the
good times I just had getting Deb onto the 701c I just aquired;) There were
a couple of sites without much detail that described(again without much
detail) how to get Slack3.0 on it, but that's all I could find. I'm about
to write-up a pretty solid how-to, possibly resulting in a home-rolled 701c
distro.
I do NOT have a CDROM for the thing, so had to sit through DLing and
installing 17 floppies(blech)! I then apt-got(or is it apt-getted?) X and
GNOME and it works just swell. Although I think I'll probably use BlackBox
due to the lighter nature.
One really funny thing I tried and would not recommend...
(a little precurser, the 701c that I have is 83MhzP w/16M RAM, 1M vidcard
and 830MB HDD :) DON'T apt-get mozilla! I only did it to test this things
veracity, but it took 22mins (I'm NOT kidding) before I could type-in a URL!
LOL oh man what great museum pieces! Next project is Deb on the MacIIcs I
also aquired recently... ;)
BTW, can anyone suggest a good, lightweight browser? I don't have Qt
installed, and probably wont for spacial reasons.
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