Problems with CDROM installing on ThinkPad 600

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 10/1/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to install a fresh version of Linux on my 8 year old ThinkPad
>> 600 which is currently running SuSE 9.2 Pro in hopes that my wife can take
>> it on a trip to get wireless access.  The only wireless I've been able to
>> make work on the  SuSE is a USB.
>>
>> I'm downloading xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso in hopes that may work, but
>> it will be another half-hour before that's complete.
>>
>My experience with 7.04 on wireless was not very enchanting. I would
>recommend xubuntu 1.10 (now in Beta).

We'll see how the 7.0.4 goes.  It is loading as we speak.

The boot sequence complains about 1999 BIOS.

I escaped to the boot: prompt, then entered ``live noapm nolapm''.  It took
a long time to come up to a desktop, with very poor graphics.  I then
started the install from the desktop, set it to install on a spare
partition, leaving the original partitions untouched.  I'll see what it
looks like when it gets done.

>> The machine is an ThinkPad 600 circa August 1999, 256MB RAM, with a DVD
>> drive.  I have a pretty good selection of PCMCIA wireless and network
>> cards, most of which SuSE 9.2 doesn't recognize.
>
>If the 600 has an Atheros chip like my R51, the restricted-drivers
>will bring in the madwifi code. Also, network manager (even Fedora is
>using it now!) was miserable on 7.04, much improved on 7.10. My
>wireless works without a hitch.

The TP600 has no built-in wireless.  I have a couple of CardBus wireless
cards as well as the USB wireless that I've been using for several years
with SuSE.  I'll try these when the installation is complete.

FWIW:  I tried using ``noapm apci=off'' as suggested with a CentOS 5.0 CD,
and it paniced as it had before with the last part of the display shown
below.  This CD has been used several times with kickstart installs so I
doubt that it's bad.

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc error
UFS: cannot open root device "<NUL>" or unknown-block:(253,0)
please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: UFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(253,0)
 ISC appears to be running slowly.  Marking it as unstable
Time: pit clocksource has been installed

Bill
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