[ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40

Marc Ferguson mferguson at digitalalias.net
Sat May 24 09:57:07 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Thompson Freeman <
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

> On 05/23/2008 08:15:07 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I hope I don't get flak for this, but I'm looking for a distro to put
> > on my
> > IBM ThankPad R40.  It has an ATI video card, 40BG Harddrive, 15"
> > monitor
> > with max resolution at 1024x768.  I tried OpenSUSE 10, but I didn't
> > like it
> > so much.  I've done some searching and it's a toss up between Debian,
> > Gentoo, and Mandriva.  If anyone has any suggestions - I'd love to
> > hear it.
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Well, on my ancient ThinkPad I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 quite nicely.
>

I tried Ubuntu 7.10 and also 8.04.  I'm having an issue with the CD freezing
up in the menu.  After it boots it gives me options to run the LiveCD, Check
the CD, etc.  When I press ENTER it freezes up.  I posted on Ubuntu's forum
and someone mentioned something about:

noapic nolapic

I'll have to search that up, but I don't know what that is.  I did install
OpenSUSE , one time, so the CD drive isn't broken.

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Marc F.

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