Installing Debian on a ThinkPad T20
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Debian 4.0 "etch"
Personal Experiences
Many things from Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_T20 can be useful with Debian(4.0 - "etch"). Thats because [X|K|Edu|Flux|U]buntu are all based on Debian.
X and window managers
To get X working on your T20 you should maybe edit the xorg.conf (which can be found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf , needs root rights!): Here are some parts that I have changed:
Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "savage" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
Fluxbox works great and "out of the box" with # apt-get install fluxbox
.
With that command it is normaly set as default window manager and you can start it with
$ startx
.
I got no configured Menu for Fluxbox, but $ man fluxbox
provides useful information for that.
Wireless Networking
The following Sites can help you with the installation and configuration of your PCMCIA WLAN Card:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/ http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/NdisWrapper http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/wpa_supplicant http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/interfaces (refers to "etc/network/interfaces")
If you are to compile your own ndiswrapper modul you should use # module-assistant
, because
I had some troubles with the compilation by hand.
Debian 2.2 "potato"
External Sources
- Installing Debian 2.2 Linux on A Thinkpad T20 (Debian 2.2 "Potato")