[geeks] Never thought I'd ask this

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> ...but, anyone got a copy of XP you got with a machine and aren't ever
> going to use?  I'm tearing my hair out trying to find an OS that works
> properly on this Thinkpad i1300.  2K Pro doesn't have a graphics chipset
> driver that works.  Knoppix 5.1.1 handles the buggy IDE chipset OK, but
> I can't get the trackpoint device to work, and I have to disable USB to
> get it to boot because the damned OHCI USB chipset hard-locks the entire
> machine if probed at boot time.  Kanotix 2007rc6 won't boot past that
> infernal IDE chipset, neither will Debian 4.0, neither will Slackware
> 12.  The one Linux distribution I've managed to get installed and
> working was Gentoo 2007.0, and the machine's too ram-starved to run
> Gentoo - an emerge that would take ten minutes on my desktop takes hours
> on the laptop, and a large emerge takes all day.

I doubt that XP would work without a hitch.  The Thinkpad i Series was 
the biggest POS ever made.  They weren't even made by IBM.  They were 
made under contract by one of the Taiwanese makers.

Peace...  Sridhar