From: "Lothar Frommhold" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:55:48 -0500
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] question about installing OS/2 and Ubuntu on a
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Many thanks, Lewis! I'll try this weekend multi-boot, I think.
Lothar

Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Hi, Lothar!
> 
> Brief thoughts, below:
> 
> On 06/25/09 12:12 pm, Lothar Frommhold thus wrote :
>> Hello to everyone:
>>
>> I need to install OS/2-eCS2.0 (RC6a) and Ubuntu (or rather the Kubuntu 
>> variety) on a T61p. Does someone in this newsgroup have some 
>> experience? I wonder what one should do:
>>
>> 1. Try to multi-boot Kubuntu and eCS? Would this work?
> Yes, this would work. The recommended way is to use Boot Manager, and 
> install GRUB in your Linux boot partition vs using GRUB as your main 
> boot manager. GRUB is just ornery sometimes, and Boot Manager is typical 
> IBM: reliable.
>> 2. Install Kubuntu and run eCS in a virtual machine as a guest? (64 
>> bit VMWare 4.0 supports OS/2 4.51)
> This should work. The T9300 is a Core2 CPU, and thus, EM64T-capable, so 
> a 64-bit Linux would be a good choice (depending upon the rest of the 
> hardware; I've never installed a 64-bit OS on a ThinkPad, and I am told 
> that not all machines - regardless of CPU - run 64-bit reliably).
>> 3. Install VMWare and run Kubuntu and eCs as guests? (The T61p 
>> processor is a T9300, ready to support virtual machines.)
>>
> This would also work, though I don't see the real advantage over 64-bit 
> Kubuntu as your host OS. In a server environment, this might be 
> desirable if you had multiple virtuals to run simultaneously for some 
> reason, but on a workstation, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a good 
> use-case vs option 2.
>> If someone knows of a "how-to" to do any of the three choices above, 
>> could you please let me know? Any help or clue you might be able to 
>> give is appreciated!
>>
> My only real experience has been with option 1. Install BM, install eCS 
> (leave space for your Linux partitions), and install Kubuntu (being 
> careful to install GRUB in the right place; I understand that under 
> Kubuntu - or is it just Ubuntu? - you need to use a different install 
> disc to select the GRUB location, so check this out; I'm a SuSE guy, 
> myself). Finally, add Kubuntu to BM, and away you go.
> 
> HTH
>