T42 Mandrake 10

[vijeshmehta]

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.

[dd]

Hi vijeshmehta

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

http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html

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

[vijeshmehta]

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.

[dd]

Hi

It may be worth giving YOPER a go:

Supposed to be the fastest !

http://www.yoper.com/

Regards

[vijeshmehta]

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.

[boudie]

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.

[jmargaglione]

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

[dd]

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?

[dd]

Yes you have to blow away the hidden partition

Dual boot XP and Mandrake 10.1 community at present . .