NetBSD 3.0 on IBM Thinkpad 600E

Vlad D. Markov · *nix forums beginner Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 24

And I thought this would be easy.

1. NetBSD would not install from CD. Failed right at the load of the
install kernel. Debian and Fedora Linux had no such problem. Poking
around on Google found something saying that the image was too large
for an IBM Thinkpad.

2. The generic floppies installed a relatively useless system. PCMCIA
plain old didn't work. Kernel said everything had a bogus CIS.

3. The laptop floppies worked beautifully.

This is being posted so the next person doesn't give up on NetBSD.

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