[9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

[Burton Samograd <burton.samograd@gmail.com>]

I got my Thinkpad T61 last night and installation was somewhat
successful but not without problems:

- the main thing was to set the SATA controller to 'Compatibility'
mode.  9front would find the disk
  and install correctly but would get stuck after the pbs if this was
not set.  The bell labs iso would
  boot but not find the disk leading to some confusion when I didn't
notice it was trying to partition
  the install CD during installation

- after setting to Compatibility mode the Bell Labs iso install would
go along well until it was trying
  to copydist which then was either completely failing or going
incredibly slow; I waited at least 15
  minutes during this process and it was at around 3% before I gave
up.  The cd would spin up and
  down but it really didn't seem to be copying anything at all or at
least nothing very quickly.

- the middle mouse button doesn't work when using ps2intellimouse or ps2

- graphics works great at native 1280x800x16 resolution

- wired networking works good

So, in the end I got 9front installed but now the bell labs wiki isn't
very helpful since so much has
changed, with the first being how to add a new user among other
things.  To be honest, I'd rather
be using the Bell Labs iso so if anybody could give a suggestion on
how to get that working I'd
appreciate it.

--
Burton Samograd