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    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by waterloo, May 13, 2006.

  1. waterloo

    waterloo Notebook Evangelist

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    how about a REAL REAL INDepth Article on installing Gentoo on a IBM THinkpad R40 or R50... Wifi, AUdio, Win32codecs(video), optimizing kernel, cflags, everything... WHat you guys think?
     
    waterloo, May 13, 2006
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    Its really not that bad. Search the gentoo forums for T42 as it is a really popular model. There are some really nice HOWTOs for it.

    You can easily use the howtos for your R40.

    Also check out the gentoo wiki and thinkwiki.org
     
    djpharoah, May 13, 2006
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  3. waterloo

    waterloo Notebook Evangelist

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    ya I know ... I dont want poor noobs 2 search. :) and most of the r40 wikis and howtos built around 2002-2004... OLD
     
    waterloo, May 14, 2006
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  4. djpharoah

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    are you searching for one yourself? or on behalf of others :p

    Well find someone who uses an R40 and if they run gentoo on it. Are you having issues?

    feel free to ask me questions. I run gentoo on my IBM T20 and have installed on numerous TPs
     
    djpharoah, May 14, 2006
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  5. waterloo

    waterloo Notebook Evangelist

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    na... I have gentoo without a prob... but it was a pain. I didn't want it to happen to poor people who are new to it
     
    waterloo, May 14, 2006
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    so why not write one??
     
    djpharoah, May 15, 2006
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