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Have any of you gentlemen tried Fedora core 5 on a T-43… I bought mine in January but I am itching to install Red hat on it…..
Any warnings?????
Any suggestions????
Any scary stories???
Any hardware issues???
I hope some one here dares me to do it…. hahahahahahahhahaha

Stingray wrote:Have any of you gentlemen tried Fedora core 5 on a T-43… I bought mine in January but I am itching to install Red hat on it…..
Any warnings?????
Any suggestions????
Any scary stories???
Any hardware issues???
I hope some one here dares me to do it…. hahahahahahahhahaha

DO IT!!! I dare you....

I don't think it will be a problem, but I chickened out..you can read it here:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=22682

I used it on a T60p for a while, and the only real hardware issues I ran into were the graphics card and the wireless card. Since the T-43 doesn't have bleeding edge components in those regards, and older distributions from RedHat/Fedora work fine on it, I don't see why you'd assume FC5 will have a problem.

I put Fedora Core 5 into a virtual machine. It is big and slow - I dumped it. ... JD Hurst

Stingray wrote:Have any of you gentlemen tried Fedora core 5 on a T-43… I bought mine in January but I am itching to install Red hat on it…..
Any warnings?????
Any suggestions????
Any scary stories???
Any hardware issues???
I hope some one here dares me to do it…. hahahahahahahhahaha

hehehe.

Only way is to try. Installing fedora, or any other distro for that matter, won't break your machine or fry any components in there - unless you start issuing commands to your hardware that it can't handle... but you'll never get to that point because you won't know any of the commands to get there in the first place ... Regardless, this old wive's tale of linux frying your system would only apply a decade (or more) ago when the entire operating system was built from scratch using command line.

The only hardware issues you're likely to face are your wifi (if you have it), bluetooth (if you have it) and your video card - meaning installing manufacturer specific drivers for the video card (i.e. drivers from nvidia or ati). However, unless you're expecting to do some CAD work or play some FPS games on your thinkpad (quake, battlefield 2, etc) then you won't need those manufactuer specific drivers anyways because linux comes with native video support for all nvidia and ati cards. Look, if you boot a "liveCD" and you see a desktop, then it means your vid card will work without a hitch.

There are a number of other configurations to take care of later after the installation, such as the Fn keys, wifi, bluetooth, but nothing major really. Fedora has pretty good support for the function keys right off the bat, so you shouldn't worry too much.

Cheers

PS: I dare ya too!