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I'm looking for help installing Linux on a TP750Cs. I've been trying for about three months. I'm having a terrible time and absolutely no success. I first tried to use the Slackware 2.3 disks right out of the box --- setting the "floppy=thinkpad" parameter along the way. I would then be able to bring up the "setup" program and begin installing disks. But the installations were never successful; sometimes "setup" itself would hang, other times I would load all my disks (60?) only to have the machine hang soon after I tried to run some application. (The most common error seems to have been some sort of swapper failure, although there have been others.) I've done this about two dozen times, with all the permutations I can think of. Then, two weeks ago, I discovered the "tp-bare" boot disk on the net. Unfortunately, I can't get this to work, either. I'm a literate Unix user and I've installed Linux on several other computers, but I seem to be missing something critical here. I suspect (hope?) it's due to the 2.88Mb floppy (I can never get the boot display to say anything other than "1.44", no matter what bootdisk I use.) The machine used to run OS/2 quite well (until I repartitioned the disk), so I suspect it's my fault, not the hardware's. Please feel free to flame me with "RTFM" --- just as long as you tell me where to find TFM and what sections I should R. Thanks for your time. Peter