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Posted: Nov. 13 2006,20:10 QUOTE

Hi all!
I missed the Notebook laptop handled in a previous thread, someone got the mashine before me.
I have found another laptop, IBM ThinkPad 600x, how is it with this mashine? Any problems installing?

BM ThinkPad 600x
P3 500 MHz
384 MB RAM
12 GB Hard Drive

I saw a thread for the "big" DSL that thay have had problems with it but they got it running on "this" DSL.
Any experience to share?

Many thanks

Marcus
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Posted: Mar. 20 2008,17:37 QUOTE

This is way late perhaps, but I too recently acquired a 600X IBM,, 500 mhz P-3 processor, 256 megs ram, and I installed a 60 gig hard drive..  I installed Damn Small Linux version 4.0 into a partition I previously created on the hard drive for some other Linux installs I had done when the drive was in a different computer.. Damn Small installed 'frugally' without a hitch.. I always stop before it installs a boot loader by just shutting the machine down.. Then later I go into my working GRUB bootloader and edit the menu.lst file so that is says /boot/linux24  instead of the normal /bootvmlinuz on the partition I have installed Damn Small to ,, in this case it was /hda6..  It worked fine,, it found my wireless card and I was able to get online right away,, but the display was off -color.. Other than that the whole system worked and worked well,, as has been my usual experience with Damn Small on any of the various machines I have tried it on..  So after reading a bunch of 'suggestions' about setting the framebuffer,, installing Xfree and on and on, I found the simplest thing to do was just to go into the 'system' menu--find Xvesa and set it to the setting with 16 bits.. I am currently running 1024x768x16  and the colors are as clear and as crisp as ever.. I would think that I could put this into the menu.lst as an append, but it is very easy to just set Xvesa after boot, and it works, so why tinker with a good thing?
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