There are several ThinkPad models, each of which has a slightly different architecture. Several of the models are not suited for running Linux. The ones you are most likely to meet are:
- ThinkPad 340
- Monochrome-only machine with a 486SLC processor clocked at 50 MHz (i.e., non-Intel). It comes with disks of 200-360 Mb capacity, depending on the precise model. David N Turner reports a successful installation of Slackware 2.3.0 on a 340CSE with 12 Mb memory and 200 Mb hard disk. He also warns us that it has the same floppy disk change problem as the 750 series machines (see below). Specifying
ramdisk floppy=thinkpad
at the bootdisk prompt gets around the problem.
- Ps/Note E35
- Jerome Kaidor reports that he has made Linux 1.2.0 run on his Ps/Note E35, which he thinks is essentially a ThinkPad 350 (whatever that may be) without PCMCIA slots. He managed to squeeze everything he needed into 21 Mb, even with X installed!
- ThinkPad 360
- This model has options based around the 486DX2 at 50 MHz. There are disk options between 340 and 810 Mb, and dual-scan colour and active-matrix colour screens. The "mouse" is IBM's Trackpoint device, located amongst the G, H and B keys. Linux is happy on this model (reported by Richard Soderberg, for example).
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