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Hello Kevin, Good to see a new laptop unix user down there !! I personnally have a 360CSE. 486DX2/50 with 340Mb disk and dual scan screen. I keep a small partition for DOS/Windows (nearly 40Mb). The other part of the disk is dedicated to unix. I firstly tested FreeBSD. It runs well if you use a special kernel because there is a keyboard problem. Otherwise it seems OK. Now I run Linux (latest snapshot) with no particular problem. Thought I just have 4Mb (but I plan to extend to 12Mb), I runs well. Floppy support is now incorporated in the kernel (version 1.1.7x and higher). You just have to use floppy=thinkpad on the LILO command line for correct support. The hard disk is still a problem. You need a patched kernel. The patch is included in the kernel sources. Just have to reverse the #ifdef's. XFree is hard to configure correctly but it runs in 640x480x256 using the LCD screen. Feel free to ask for more infomation concerning Linux and Thinkpad. -------------------------------------------------------------------- St'ephane ERANIAN | Email eranian@chorus.fr Universit'e PARIS VII | eranian@litp.ibp.fr LITP - Laboratoire d'Informatique | Th'eorique et Programmation | 2 place Jussieu | 75251 Paris cedex 05 | --------------------------------------------------------------------