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| + | Although more conventional methods may work, on a 390 with no working floppy or CD-ROM Linux was successfully installed on this machine by putting the harddrive an another laptop (a T21) installing on it there normally, | ||
| + | and then swapping the hard drive back in, without any special fussing. | ||
==Distro specific Instructions== | ==Distro specific Instructions== | ||
Revision as of 03:52, 31 July 2006
Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad 390, 390E and 390X.
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General Notes
Although more conventional methods may work, on a 390 with no working floppy or CD-ROM Linux was successfully installed on this machine by putting the harddrive an another laptop (a T21) installing on it there normally, and then swapping the hard drive back in, without any special fussing.
Distro specific Instructions
External Sources
ThinkPad 390
ThinkPad 390E
- Craig Kulesas Linux (Redhat) on a ThinkPad 390E pages
- Allin Cottrells Linux on a ThinkPad 390E page
- Patrick Reas Mandrake 10.1 on a ThinkPad 390E page
- Adam Spiers' Linux on the IBM ThinkPad 390E page
