[Wylug-help] Is the Lenovo R61 a good choice?

[Towle, William]

>= Roger Beaumont:
> >= Chris Myers:
> I have spotted a Lenovo R61 (NF55QUK) from DABS. At £800 It 
> appears to
> > have what I need.
> 
> Dunno what precision that £800 is, but CCL (up Wakefield Road 
> in Bradford) 
> - http://www.cclonline.com/ - has it at £736.27 inc VAT.
> 
> FWIW... Somewhat down-market from that, but I've a Lenovo 
> 3000 C100 and 
> that seemed to run Linux fine.  My problem was that I wanted it for 
> education sector compatibility, which demanded 'Doze, and the 
> 'Doze repair 
> stuff, in a hidden partition, refused to work with a disk 
> re-partitioned to 
> give Linux a place to live.  I guess that isn't an issue for you.

  I found the same with my Compaq Armada's "diagnostics" partition.
By mounting it under linux, I noticed there were regular executables
in it and that marking the partition as a regular unhidden MSDOS
filesystem made it readable from FreeDOS ... which seems to run the
executables quite happily.

(In case that's useful, probably more so to Roger)
Wills.