Re: Thinkpad 850

["S. Ryan Quick" <ryan@phaedo.com>]

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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

> I've got a thinkpad 850 and I'd love to run Linux on it (preferably leaving
> AIX on it too).  Has anyone had any success or pointers (bar the two on
> www.debian.org/ports)?

I was able to run LinuxPPC on my TP850 for some time with a few problems -- mostly to do
with the display.  You don't stand a chance of keeping AIX on it at the same time, but I was
able to configure it to boot an external scsi disk by playing with the scsi id's on the system
at the boot menu.  You'll need the diag pieces from AIX (bos.diag.*) and the accounting pieces (bos.acct.*)
in order to properly configure the boot with ipl_varyon before setting linux and AIX to work together 
(albeit on separate drives).

This might be a lot to handle if you're new to this end of things . . .  but good luck.  Feel free to
contact me directly (ryan@phaedo.com).

Ryan


> 
> It's a 603e processor @100MHz with SCSI-2 disk and G10 graphics adapter. 
> 
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> Adrian (currently d/l linuxppc just to see if it works).
> 
> Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@hursley.ibm.com>
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