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Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-16T08:47:29Z

Barisart:

<h1> Introduction </h1>
Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

<h1> Partitioning and boot loader</h1>
OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine since I spend most of mytime in OpenSUSE. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default (everything under an extended partition) to ensure dual boot. After the windows partition, I chose:
<ul>
<li>A primary partition of 100MB (Ext3) as /boot (check that "set partition to active" is flagged) to install GRUB </li>
<li>An extended partition for the rest:
<ul>
<li>Partition for / </li>
<li>Partition for /home </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

For GRUB, I chose to install to /boot and kept the default choices.

<h1>Graphics card</h1>
OpenSUSE 10.3 recognizes the Nvidia Quadro FX 570M card, but this gives a somewhat false feeling of safety. The installation of OpenSUSE completed without a glitch. At the end of the installation, OpenSUSE directs you to the graphical login screen which resulted in a blank screen.

Pressing ctrl-alt-backspace gets you out of the X11 server and shows a nice prompt. After spending some time searching for the problem I came up with the following: Check in the BIOS that under Display, the display to boot is set to "Thinkpad LCD" (mine was set to Analog(VGA) which tries to use an eternal screen). Afterwards I ran xorgconfig and chose the generic Nvidia driver.

Next I installed the Nvidia driver available from the Nvidia website.

<h1>Sound</h1>
Download the latest alsa packages: alsa, alsa-utils, also-tools. At the time of this writing these were the 1.0.16 versions. Next run alsaconf.

<h1>Conclusion</h1>
All considered, a fairly straightforward install. OpenSUSE happily coexists with Windows.

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-16T08:44:31Z

Barisart:

<h1> Introduction </h1>
Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

<h1> Partitioning and boot loader</h1>
OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine since I spend most of mytime in OpenSUSE. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default (everything under an extended partition) to ensure dual boot. After the windows partition, I chose:
<ul>
<li>A primary partition of 100MB (Ext3) as /boot (check that "set partition to active" is flagged) to install GRUB </li>
<li>An extended partition for the rest:
<ul>
<li>Partition for / </li>
<li>Partition for /home </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

For GRUB, I chose to install to /boot and kept the default choices.

<h1>Graphics card</h1>
OpenSUSE 10.3 recognizes the Nvidia Quadro FX 570M card, but this gives a somewhat false feeling of safety. The installation of OpenSUSE completed without a glitch. At the end of the installation, OpenSUSE directs you to the graphical login screenm which resulted in a blank screen.

Pressing ctrl-alt-backspace gets you out of the X11 server and shows a nice prompt. After spending some time searching for the problem I came up with the following: Check in the BIOS that under Display, the display to boot is set to "Thinkpad LCD" (mine was set to Analog(VGA) which tries to use an eternal screen). Afterwards I ran xorgconfig chosing the generic Nvidia driver.

Next I installed the Nvidia driver available from the Nvidia website.

<h1>Sound</h1>
Download the latest alsa packages: alsa, alsa-utils, also-tools. At the time of this writing these were the 1.0.16 versions. Next run alsaconf.

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-16T08:32:17Z

Barisart:

<h1> Introduction </h1>
Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

<h1> Partitioning </h1>
OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine since I spend most of mytime in OpenSUSE. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default (everything under an extended partition) to ensure dual boot. After the windows partition, I chose:
<ol>
<li>A primary partition of 100MB (Ext3) as /boot (check that "set partition to active" is flagged) to install GRUB </li>
<li>An extended partition for the rest:
<ol>
<li>Partition for / </li>
<li>Partition for /home </li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-15T18:53:34Z

Barisart:

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-15T18:52:13Z

Barisart:

<h1> Introduction </h1>
Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

<h1> Partitioning </h1>

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-15T18:51:50Z

Barisart:

Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

<h1> Partitioning </h1>

Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-15T18:50:42Z

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Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

Installation instructions for the ThinkPad T61p

2008-04-15T18:47:57Z

Barisart: /* Distro specific Instructions */

==General Notes==

==Distro specific Instructions==

=== Fedora ===
{{Install|Fedora| 7|T61p}}<br>
{{Install|Fedora| 8|T61p}}

=== Debian ===

[[Installing_Debian_lenny_on_a_ThinkPad_T61p]]

=== Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon ===
[[Install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon on a T61p|Install Gutsy Gibbon on a T61p]]

=== OpenSUSE ===
[[Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p]]