Installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad X61

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on the same ThinkPad X61 model 7673-CTO that I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on last year.

Right at the beginning there was an important obstacle to overcome. The installed kernel would panic on boot. The solution was to add mem=4096M to the kernel boot parameter list.

In the coming days I will test various features and extend this page.