Another OS for my T23

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cmarti · #1 Post by **cmarti** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:24 pm

I would like to thinker with other OS other than windows on my T23 as you can see it is max out so I guess the performance would be better with one of those, I will install dual boot of windows XP pro sp3 and the "other os" which one you all recommend? I mean for a noob who all his life has been working with windows.

Preferences are:

#1 easy to install
#2 that is comes for most of the drivers for the T23.

Thanks!

ajkula66 · #2 Post by **ajkula66** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:43 pm

I've had Linux Mint 5.0 on my last T23 and it worked very well, surprisingly so for a machine of that generation. Maxed-out RAM helped a lot. To the best of my recollection, everything (at least the stuff I cared for) worked out of the box.

Good luck.

cmarti · #3 Post by **cmarti** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:54 am

That one can be installed on another partition on the hd? How big the partition needs to be?

Thanks!

ajkula66 · #4 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:59 am

Yes it can be installed as a dual boot, and doesn't take that much space at all...I ran it as a single boot (no Windows) so I can't really remember how much it occupied...

My suggestion would be to download it, burn a CD and run it as a "live" disk until you figure out whether you like it enough to install it.

#5 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:04 pm

I'm in the process of installing OpenSolaris on a T23:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=70819

I'm trying out this OS since the Sun Ultra 5 systems at work are running Solaris 8 and I want to see what the differences are.

cmarti · #6 Post by **cmarti** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:51 pm

Thanks for the replies!

George, I search for the mint 5.0 and i saw a version 6.0 available so I am downloading that one.

Ray, I never heard of that solaris but I will give linux a try and if I don't like it i will try to get solaris.

Will post later my experience here.

Thanks...

cmarti · #7 Post by **cmarti** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:58 am

Just finished installing Linux Mint 6

It was quite easy.... But i cannot boot either in xp or linux now, all I get is this error:

"GRUB Loading stage1.5." , " GRUB loading, please wait... Error18"

I say in a forum that The solution is in the bios. Put the hard disk detection on auto and not on user. But i don't see that option on the T23 BIOS setup utility.

Any ideas?

tom lightbody · #8 Post by **tom lightbody** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:03 am

dogpile came up with this:

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/83976

here is a page that describes what GRUB Error 18 means:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18

Briefly, GRUB Error 18 means "Selected cylinder exceeds
maximum supported by BIOS" and it can be fixed by
"creating a boot partition at the beginning of the disk
that is completely within the first 1023 cylinders of
the harddrive."

in my own case, I find the / "root" partition is 240MB,
with 10 other partitions spread over 3 disks.

perhaps back at the beginning, you have a chance to set
aside a small / "root" partition, putting "usr" and "home" on
others. A few struggles in the beginning, to be expected.

cmarti · #9 Post by **cmarti** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:11 am

tom lightbody, I will try that another thing that i forgot to mention is that i am unable to boot windows now...

Thanks god I made a back up of all the files before starting messing with the lappy

Will post later an update..

Thanks

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