Installing Ubuntu on a ThinkPad 750P

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Introduction

This is an experiment to get my 750P running a modern Linux distribution. It may fail. Read on.

Preparation

Start by installing Debian Woody. Instructions are on this site. I did this because I fond other instructions not to work on the 750P for a variety of reasons.

Steps

Get debootstrap

Ubuntu is based on Debian. They also make a very nice Debian package that will migrate your Debian system to Ubuntu. Go get the latest package ending with all.deb from this site: 

 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap/

As of this writing, that file is debootstrap_1.0.7~gutsy1_all.deb.

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