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I just bought the 2379DXU and I want to install Mandrake 10. I haven't seen much info about how to go about this - If anyone has any experience with this and can give me advice before I would appreciate it.

Hi vijeshmehta

It may be of some help to have a look at Tux mobile:

http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html

Bye for now...........

I looked at tuxmobile and a couple other linux-laptop type sites. Nothing really specific about Mandrake 10 - the french one on the T41 is slightly helpfull. I want to know if anyone on this board is successfully using Mandrake 10 on their T42 - and if they had any problems which they could not resolve.

Thanks for the link.

Hi

It may be worth giving YOPER a go:

Supposed to be the fastest !

http://www.yoper.com/

Regards

Thanks, I think I am kind of stuck with using Mandrake for now - there are some tools I use in research for vision detection which I will take too much time to figure out using other distro's.

Thanks for your help - looks like I might have to just try it out and write up my own document on problems I face.

Try asking someone here:

http://www.pclinuxonline.com

They have numerous forums and are all crazy about Mandrake.
In fact you could download their live cd which is based
on Mandrake and try it out before installing.

I just installed Mandrake 10 on my T42p HVU last night. Here are the instructions:

Turn on Thinkpad
Enter BIOS (F1) and make sure it is set to boot from the CD/DVD drive
Insert Mandrade 10 CD 1
Reboot and enter Mandrake
It's all the same as a regular PC from here.

I did change a couple of other BIOS settings, although this was after I installed Mandrake, so I'm not sure any of the settins are strictly necessary. I changed a few of the ACPI settings, I think.

There are plenty of useful battery/laptop apps in Mandrake 10. In rpmdrake, search for Thinkpad, laptop, acpi, etc.

The only thing I don't have running to my satisfaction is the a/b/g wireless card. There are madwifi_* packages in the distro, but I couldn't get wifi running with them, so I downloaded the latest from CVS and installed it, so still no luck. For all I know the madwifi_* packages work fine. I just don't have it configured properly...

If you have any specific questions, just post them here.

John

Hi

I was wondering if I can dual boot Mandrake 10 with XPP, leaving the hidden partition intact?

Is this possble, or will it screw things up?

Yes you have to blow away the hidden partition

Dual boot XP and Mandrake 10.1 community at present . .