Difference between revisions of "Installing Slackware 12.0 on a ThinkPad R61"
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Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 | Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 | ||
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Intel 3945 ABG wireless | Intel 3945 ABG wireless | ||
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nVidia quadro nvs 140m | nVidia quadro nvs 140m | ||
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no bluetooth / card reader / camera | no bluetooth / card reader / camera | ||
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80 gb hard drive | 80 gb hard drive | ||
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cd burner/dvd reader | cd burner/dvd reader | ||
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| + | Shipped with windows vista home premium. | ||
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| + | I used the dvd version of slackware because its what i have. The instructions are the same for the cd version, just change disks when the installer tells you to. (CD and DVD will be interchanged) | ||
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| + | For all boots, you will not need to pass any parameters. | ||
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| + | Step 1: | ||
| + | Go to: | ||
| + | http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ | ||
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| + | Download and burn the live cd. Stick it into the thinkpad and it will boot. You will need to shrink / move the recovery partition so that the start is not at the absolute beginning of the disk, and shrink / move the windows partition so that it is not at the absolute end of the disk. | ||
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| + | You can do this with parted or any Windows partitioning tool or dos partitioning tool, ie partition magic, ranish partion manager, paragon partition manager, etc. | ||
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| + | I linked gparted because its pretty and easy. cfdisk will crash because of the recovery partition's start if you try it on the slackware cd, but fdisk and parted will work on the slackware cd. | ||
Revision as of 06:20, 13 January 2008
My Thinkpad:
7742-CTO
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300
Intel 3945 ABG wireless
nVidia quadro nvs 140m
no bluetooth / card reader / camera
80 gb hard drive
cd burner/dvd reader
Shipped with windows vista home premium.
I used the dvd version of slackware because its what i have. The instructions are the same for the cd version, just change disks when the installer tells you to. (CD and DVD will be interchanged)
For all boots, you will not need to pass any parameters.
Step 1: Go to: http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
Download and burn the live cd. Stick it into the thinkpad and it will boot. You will need to shrink / move the recovery partition so that the start is not at the absolute beginning of the disk, and shrink / move the windows partition so that it is not at the absolute end of the disk.
You can do this with parted or any Windows partitioning tool or dos partitioning tool, ie partition magic, ranish partion manager, paragon partition manager, etc.
I linked gparted because its pretty and easy. cfdisk will crash because of the recovery partition's start if you try it on the slackware cd, but fdisk and parted will work on the slackware cd.
