Installation instructions for the ThinkPad T61
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See also: General Thinkpad T61 information and installation notes for the previous T60.
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Distribution Specific Instructions
Debian
- Installing Debian Etch Linux on a Thinkpad T61, 2007-10-13
- Installing Debian/Linux Etch on a Thinkpad T61, 2007-05-22
- Installation of Debian Lenny on a ThinkPad T61
- Installing Debian Trixie on a Thinkpad T61, 2026-06-14
Slackware
Ubuntu
- Installation of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a ThinkPad T61
- Installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) on a ThinkPad T61
Fedora
- Installing Fedora 7 x86_64 on a Thinkpad T61 15.4" widescreen.
- Installation of Fedora 7 on a ThinkPad T61, including Xen.
- Useful forum post on Fedora 7 x86_64 installation. - Updated 7.8.2007 to include suspend
- Fedora 7 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61
- Installing Fedora 8 on a T61
- Installing Fedora 9 on ThinkPad T61 together with Vista as dual boot (german howto)
- Installing Fedora 12 on a T61
openSUSE / SUSE Linux
- Installing Novell SLED 10sp1 on a Thinkpad T61
- Installing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2 on an Thinkpad T61
- Installing openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 on an IBM ThinkPad T61
- Installing openSUSE 10.2 on an IBM ThinkPad T61 - max X resolution in default install is 1024x768
- Installing openSUSE 10.3 GM on a ThinkPad T61
- GNU/Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61
- Installing openSUSE 11 GM on a ThinkPad T61
- Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a Thinkpad T61
Gentoo
- Useful forum post on the installation of many hardware features of the T61 Laptop with a 64 bit Gentoo Linux system.
- Another useful forum post on installation of Gentoo.
- Gentoo-wiki's Lenovo Thinkpad T61 hardware page.
