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<p>Agentsteel: /* ThinkPad 365XD */</p> <hr /> <div>Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}, {{365X}} and {{365XD}}.<br /> <br /> ==General Notes==<br /> The Thinkpad 365 ( model 2625) has serveral boot options available in the setup / diagnostic mode ( hold down F1 and turn on laptop to enter setup) . One option is to boot from floppy or CD (365XD) which is fairly standard, but a more flexible option is to boot from the PCMCIA port. Given a large capacity flash card ( usually a compact flash card in a PCMCIA adapter) the original setup CD can be replicated onto the flash card.<br /> Alternativly any distribution designed to run from a USB Flash card will also run from the PCMCIA port.<br /> <br /> Using the PCMCIA Fash card method above it should be possible to test most of the mainstream distros using LiveCD versions before installing to the harddrive.<br /> <br /> Another solution is the ditch the hard drive completely and use a 44 pin IDE ( laptop IDE) to compact flash converter, leaving both PCMCIA ports free.<br /> <br /> The ThinkPad 365XD is known to be compatible with {{Redhat}} 6.2, as long as the system has more than 8 megabytes of memory. There is a problem with starting up X; while models of the 365XD with TFT displays were compatible with a number of releases of X, the DTSN models of the 365XD had compatibility problems with certain releases of X, and required complicated startup to make X visible:<br /> <br /> * Run {{cmduser|startx}} to start the X server<br /> * Hit {{key|Fn}}{{key|F7}} on the keyboard. This may make X visible. If not:<br /> * Exit out of X with {{key|Ctrl}}{{key|Alt}}{{key|Backspace}}<br /> * Restart X with {{cmduser|startx}}<br /> <br /> Releases 3.2 and 3.3.6 of XFree86 are known to be compatible with the 365XD; other releases may not be.<br /> <br /> ==Distro specific Instructions==<br /> ===Puppy Linux===<br /> Tested with Puppy linux version 2.01 live cd. Note you need another computer to create the boot image with.<br /> * 1. Create a live CD<br /> * 2. Create a boot floppy.<br /> * 3. Using the live cd create a Compact flash boot distribution ( in the create USB key boot disk menu.)<br /> * 4. Copy the .sfs file from the CF card onto the harddrive along with the ideflash file.<br /> * 5. Boot from the floppy, it should load freedos and then boot into puppy.<br /> <br /> Problems<br /> * 1. PCMCIA not recognised.<br /> * 2. Sound card not detected.<br /> <br /> ==External Sources==<br /> ===ThinkPad 365X===<br /> *[http://agentoss.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/recycling-an-ibm-thinkpad-365x-as-a-mp3-player-with-slitaz-gnulinux-1-0/ How to transform your ThinkPad 365X into an MP3 player with SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0]<br /> <br /> ===ThinkPad 365XD===<br /> *[http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/laptop1.html Mandrake 6.1 on a ThinkPad 365XD]<br /> *[http://www.agol.dk/elgaard/picframe.html Niels Elgaard Larsens ThinkPad 365XD based Digital Picture Frame page]<br /> *[http://www.samiam.org/linux/365xd.html Redhat on a ThinkPad 365XD]<br /> *[http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bjhenry1/linux/linux-smurf.htm Peanut Linux 7.6 on a ThinkPad 365XD]<br /> *[http://marc.merlins.org/linux/laptops/TP365XD_Xfree.html David Mentres Linux on a ThinkPad 365XD page]<br /> *[http://marc.merlins.org/linux/laptops/TP365XD.html Marc Marlins Linux on a ThinkPad 365XD page]</div>

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