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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:34:38 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        brians@aego.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Thinkpad T20 install/support
Message-ID:  <v04210102b616e8d2eb07@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <39F105C5.ACFD9CC9@aego.com>
References:  <39F105C5.ACFD9CC9@aego.com>

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At 7:56 PM -0700 10/20/00, BrianStadtmiller wrote:
>Has anyone had success installing FreeBSD onto an IBM Thinkpad T20?
>I gave it a shot, and the smoke is just clearing....I mean she blew
>up something fierce.  After things cool off I may go at it again.....
>If anyone has any knowledge on compatibility etc. I'd like to hear.

This issue has come up many many times in this mailing list over
the past few weeks.  Please scan thru the archives.

After the install, you probably have a laptop that does not boot
up, at all.  Seems to be a dead hard disk.  It is not.  Move the
disk to another machine (not a T20, obviously), and change the
partition-id to linux.  Your laptop will be usable again (of
course, you will then have to install some operating system on
it before you can really use it, but it is usable).

Again, see the archives of this mailing list for further details.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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