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    Linux on top of Thinkpad T60p

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by GrA, Aug 30, 2006.

  1. GrA

    GrA Notebook Enthusiast

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    I heard that installing Linux on thinkpads will be painful and will break the recovery partition. So it seems that VM will be a pretty good option.
    Does anyone have a VM running? Is it going to be really slow? Can I work on windows platform with VM running with some tasks at the background?
     
    GrA, Aug 30, 2006
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  2. pbdavey

    pbdavey Notebook Consultant

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    No worry, I dual boot my T60 with the recovery partition intact. Here's a website devoted entirely to thinkpads and linux.
    http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
    I'm pretty sure that using the recovery leaves the harddrive as it left the warehouse, ie no linux partitions, no linux.
     
    pbdavey, Aug 30, 2006
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  3. Qhs

    Qhs Notebook Evangelist

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    If you want to go the VM route, it runs no problem. I have Win XP as host OS and Ubuntu 6.06.1 as guest OS. You don't even have to worry about partitioning your HDD! Its that easy. It just saves a Virtual Machine in you documents folder and done! With 512MB, the system runs only slightly laggier. If you want to go the VM way, I suggest a mem upgrade to at least 1GB.

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    Ah, I see you specs on your T60 (DUR its your sig :p). You should be able to run it NP.
     
    Qhs, Aug 30, 2006
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  4. glentium

    glentium Notebook Evangelist

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    Only the user can break the Recovery Partition, that is, when it is intentionally or unintentionally deleted.
    Otherwise, that partition will remain intact. But just to make sure, you can back up the Recovery Partition and you can do it many ways. First thing, perhaps you did it already, is to make a set Recovery Discs. Then you can back up an image of the whole recovery partition. A free option to do this is, guess what, Linux. Download System Rescue CD from here: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
    It includes PartImage, which you can use to backup an image of the Recovery Partition. How to use PartImage to do this is here: http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual
    I recommend having a USB hdd with a FAT32 partition of at least 4GB (Linux can write to NTFS but you'll be safer with FAT32) to save the image.
    Hope this info helps... :)
     
    glentium, Aug 30, 2006
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