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Okay, the poll results indicate that the vast majority of people want linux discussion kept on. Err..I suppose we'll try to keep whining to a minimum (:)). But anyways...that's sorta moot, as I now have Linux running...well...sorta of (Thanks to Ed (tekeian@vgi.com for providing me with a newly recompiled kernel.). The kernel referred to in the "Linux and the Thinkpad 750" html page that I forwarded to this mailing list does not appear to work correctly with Slackware distribution 2.0.0, the current slackware distribution found at tsx-11.mit.edu (or at least I couldn't get it to work (yeah, you saw all the b*tching and moaning...). Thanks to Keith Moore for pointing out to me at 2 am in the morning (:)) that the costant rebooting of my machine was probably due to a faulty kernel. Anyways...with the new kernel in hand, I successfully installed the base linux distribution (the A set for those of you w/ the linux disks). However, I used loadlin (as Ed suggested) to boot the kernel image from my _PC-DOS_ partition. Kinda nifty little program. >From there, I can specify the root to be my hard disk partition or the install disk for slackware. The problem I'm now encountering is that the linux loader (LILO) which I have booted from my OS/2 Boot Manager menu (no problems here...it works well w/ os/2 (and 4 Mb RAM...hey! stop laughing! heh.) is booting up correctly, but the system hangs when it says "going into multiuser mode." I think this is because I don't have the updated kernel installed on the linux partition. The loadlin trick loads the correct kernel which i have sitting on my dos partition. However, when just plain booting (bypassing dos and using LILO from bootmanager directly) linux hangs. So...anyone got any ideas on which file I overwrite on my root? Thanks. -- Derek P.S. Ed and I are planning on writing up some idiot-proof documention for installing Slackware 2.0.0 (feh! i needed idiot-proof documentation!). Hmmm...I don't know how long the current version of slackware will be at tsx-11.mit.edu. Furthermore, I don't know whether or not the recompiled WORKING kernel will work with subsequent distributions of slackware. So...in my humble opinion...if you're thinking at all about installing slackware, at least download the install-HOWTO and the "A" set of diskettes and the "COLOR144.GZ" root disk image from tsx-11.mit.edu (gee...I feel really sorry for that FTP site <GRIN>) as soon as possible, before they "update" the linux stuff (otherwise we MAY have to go through all this fun stuff again <sigh...NOT!>) Cheers, Derek ================================================================================ Derek V. Chan Department of Immunology and Surgery "The right to speak does not automatically Harvard Med. School/Mass Gen. Hosp. include the right to be taken seriously." chan4@husc.harvard.edu till 08/18/94 ================================================================================