Install on an IBM Thinkpad 380Z
Hi,
I was fortunate enough to receive an IBM Thinkpad 380Z this week. The
machine will dual boot NT and Debian.
However, I had little luck with the boot disks. resc1440.bin would do
the looping reboot. resc1440-fast.bin would freeze after decompressing
the kernel. resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-fast.bin would both
give an "A20 gating failed" error after decompressing the kernel.
My solution? I grabbed the 2.0.34 kernel sources, and copied
.config.save to .config before I ran `make config' (guessing that
.config.save was the config for the boot floppy). I then proceeded to
make very minor changes, with a smaller kernel in mind (so, since this
is a laptop I removed all SCSI support, for example). I left nearly
ever "Module" option enabled since those are the modules on the modules
disk ...
I ran `make dep; make clean; make zImage', and ran the commands from
"rdev.sh" (on the rescue disk) on my resulting zImage. I then copied
that zImage to "linux" on the rescue floppy, and rebooted. Voila, I'm
now in the midst of the install :)
Now to find drivers for this 3Com Ethernet/Modem combo card (are there
any? It's a "Megahertz 10/100 LAN+56K Modem", Model 3CCFEM556 B)
If that won't work I'll have to find different PC Cards, I suppose. Any
recommendations? I'll need an Ethernet card and a modem ... I have an
"Apex" Ethernet PC Card sitting around here somewhere. I also could get
my hands on a PC Card 56K modem made by USR and rebranded by IBM.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
mailto:finn@midco.net http://www.midco.net
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