 | Distribution
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| System
 | IBM ThinkPad A21m 2628-E2U |
| 700MHz Mobile Pentium III |
| 256MB RAM (Originally 64MB) |
| 10GB HD |
| 14.1" TFT Display |
| ATI Rage Mobility M1 4MB Video Card |
| IBM 2x-8x DVD |
| Megahertz XJ10BT NIC |
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| Why this system?
| I needed to be able to run WinNT or Win2K and Linux. |
| IBM's support. (I really appreciate the fact that their support
policy isn't something like "We only support that system with the
software it shipped with...") |
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| Preparations
| I used Partition
Magic by PowerQuest for
partitioning.
 | 5588.8 MB Windows 2000 FAT-32 (Primary) |
| 7.4 MB Linux Ext2 (Primary) "/boot" |
| 132.9 MB Linux Swap (Logical) |
| 3861.2 MB Linux Ext2 (Logical) "/" |
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| Everything in /
| Although this isn't the best practice, it will hopefully prevent
me from running out of space in a particular
"slice". |
| This is my laptop workstation, not a server :) |
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| Installation
| Expert install was chosen so that LILO would be installed in /boot
instead of the MBR of /hda. Other than that, installation was very
straight forward. |
| X installed without a hitch. |
| Audio seems to work just fine with the supplied drivers. |
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| To Do
| DVDs. Since this is a dual-boot system, playing DVDs in Linux
hasn't been a priority. |
| Modem. Don't use dialup much so this hasn't been an issue for
me. |
| Get a bigger hard drive :( |
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| Things that didn't go well
| Shareware/freeware partition resizers. I tried a few of these
but didn't have much luck. Originally I was trying for a
Win98/NT/Linux system. Getting NT to recognize partitions created
by the other utilities didn't work out for me. With more effort I
probably could have gotten these to work, but I needed to get my system
up and running :) |
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| Things that could be better
| Warm booting from Linux to Win2K does not work well. I'd guess
that some PNP settings conflict. |
| KDE and Emacs don't get along. (This is fixed in 7.2) |
| Intel SpeedStep support??? |
| Closing the lid seems to invoke standby instead of suspending. |
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| Cool things
| I upgraded the RAM from 64MB to 256MB and Linux immediately made use
of it -- I didn't have to set the mem switch in LILO. |
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