Installing Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on a ThinkPad 600E

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This page should help you with installing Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu on your Thinkpad 600E. For decent performance the Xubuntu distribution is recommended, however this will depended on your requirements.

For this installation you will need have at least 256Mb of RAM installed in your Thinkpad.

Please bare with me while I write this page, thanks. CnlPepper 04:45, 22 May 2007 (CEST)

Downloading Install CDs

Download the full live/install CD for your chosen distribution and burn it to a blank CD:

Installing

  1. Make sure your Thinkpad's bios is flashed to the most recent version.
  2. You must disable quickboot in the bios (access by holding F1 while powering on the machine, do not release F1 until the bios screen appears).
  3. Insert and boot the live CD.
  4. When the live CD boot menu appears highlight the first option and press F6.
  5. Add the following linux kernel options to the end of the line of text that appears: acpi=off pci=noacpi pnpbios=off
  6. Once the live CD has booted, double click on install icon on the desktop and follw the installation instructions.

If you find the installation hangs before finishing (leave at least 10 mins before declaring it hung!) then disconnect any cardbus/pcmcia card you normally have attached and try re-installing.

Wireless

see ubuntu forums if your particular card is undetected.

Configuring Audio

audio not detected properly, need to blacklist wrong modules

change 3 files

add references to original article

Configuring Video

framebuffer: vga=0x317

set 16 bit mode

Fix overlay for DVD playback

add to devices: Option "OverlayMem" "829440"

Configuring Power Settings

acpi needed to be disabled, need to use apm. I've not solved this so far or found other info. WIll update this section when I do.

For now select shutdown and just wait until HD stops then it is safe to power down.

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