IBM ThinkPad i Series, type 2611.....

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I want to install Gentoo on this Laptop and just want to know what to expect. I have heard alot of people have had problems with older laptops and getting Gentoo installed. This old laptop has a PII 366 MHZ proc 128mb of ram. I have a Linksys PCMCIA 10/100 PCMPC100 V3 card which I am a little concerned about. The video chip is a NeoMagic
MagicGraph 256AV and I have no idea if it is supported in any way other than standard vga.

I was able to install Gentoo with no prblems on a old 366 celeron desktop system so I would think that it should install fairly easily on this laptop but who knows. Any advice would be greately appreciated, thanks.

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Sounds like cake to me. What size HD? CD-ROM? Might have to compile the system on the hard drive from a different computer and then swap the drive back over.

I am currently trying to get Gentoo onto a ThinkPad 701CS (a.k.a. 'ButterFly'). It's a 486 w/ 24MB RAM. Heh, it has been building for almost a week now.

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Jesus! A week!? Wow! I managed to get the ball rolling. Took me some time to figure out how to get my pcmcia network card working with the 1.2 stage1 cd (Linksys PCMPC 100 v3) but finally found a thread with a work around. Actually in the boot strap as week speak and everything seems to be moving along smothly. The hard drive is a an 8gig IBM, it has a dvd-rom but I don't think that will be a problem. I don't need dvd support for it so if that won't work for any reason I'm not going to mess with it, just need it to work as a cd-rom.