[Gllug] Thinkpad 240 install

[Tom Haddon]

Thanks, John. Some interesting info there...

Tom

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:50 +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:51:27AM +0100, Tom Haddon wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I have a Thinkpad 240 (300Mhz Celeron, 192MB RAM) laptop with a blank
> > hard drive. I'm looking into how to install on it, as it has no CD-Rom
> > drive. I've tried going the Debian floppies route, but the problem I
> > have is that the PCMCIA Xircom Ethernet card I have isn't being
> > recognised with the network-drivers floppy. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions for how to get around this? And no, I don't have a USB
> > CD-Rom drive (although if that's the only way, I could probably buy one
> > I guess).
> 
> An overview installation methods is here:
> 	http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s02.html.en
> 
> 
> > It does have a USB (presumably 1.1) and I have a USB pendrive of 1GB, so
> > I've considered copying a distro to this and trying to boot from floppy
> > and then continue the install from the USB, but I'm not sure of the
> > procedure for this.
> 
> I've not had to do it for sarge (Debian 3.1) yet, but it's usually 
> just a case of unpacking boot.img.gz from the hd-media directory:
> 	http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en
> 
> The USB pendrive is probably the easiest. There are other options 
> including network booting using TFTP, or running the installer from 
> a seperate FAT partition on hard drive. 
> 
> 
> > Also, a must have is modem drivers, since I'm setting this up for my
> > brother who doesn't have broadband access. If I can't get that working,
> > I'm going to have to go the Windows route, which I'd like to avoid if I
> > can.
> > 
> > Cheers, Tom
> 
> I would recommend checking the Linux Thinkpad website to find out what 
> type of modem the Thinkpad 240 has and what drivers are available:
> 	http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
> 
> I've run Debian 3.0 on a Thinkpad 240, but never had the need to use 
> a modem. I've no longer got the machine though.
> 
> 
> -- 
> #---------------------------------------------------------#
> |    John Edwards   Email: john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk    |
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