IBM ThinkPad 600E

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>I think I tried this already, but will try it again tomorrow when I go
>back to work.  I bought this for a friend.  It comes with a wiped HD
>except for io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com for Win98.  I'd like very
>much to be able to boot up Knoppix or Ubuntu LiveCD on this.  I know
>there are ways to install using floppies, but CD-boot is much preferred.
>~ I downloaded the "Utilities" disk for DOS from IBM but it says that it
>can't run in DOS mode....  Perhaps I have to boot from a DOS diskette
>first...

I don't have recent experience with the 600E, but have been running various
flavours of Linux on my TP 600 since August 1999, all of which were
installed from CD or DVD.  I think it's run all versions of Caldera
OpenLinux since 1.3, and is now running SuSE 9.2 Professional.

I have 256MB RAM in this box, about 220MB of which is available to Linux.
The only thing that isn't working right now is sound.  I've had it working
on older versions of Linux, but never had any real reason to get it working
on SuSE.

...

Bill
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