From: "Chuck McKinnis" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:15:30 -0600
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] question about installing OS/2 and Ubuntu on a
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Gerry Prosser wrote:
> I have done this on my T61P, finally successfully but after much grief
> along the way.
> 
> I recommend using Boot Manager and GRUB, but contrary to what Lewis
> has said, I would NOT put GRUB in the /boot partition. That way seems
> to lead to disaster and inability to boot the ECS installation CD let
> alone ECS itself, just as Andy says. Don't even bother creating a
> /boot partition.
> 
> Do the partitioning with eCS and install Boot Manager and then eCS.
> Then install Ubuntu and put GRUB into the root partition. I would not
> bother with JFS for Ubuntu - it seems to be incompatible with our JFS,
> I am using EXT3 for both my / and /home partitions. I have one FAT32
> partition which is accessble by Win7, Ubuntu and eCS.
> 
> There are further (serious) complications if you want to put Vista or
> Win7 on the machine as well, but I still have not got to the bottom of
> them .........

I tried Windows 7 on my ThinkCentre M50 about a week ago.  It walked on 
Boot Manager, Windows XP, and my WinXP recovery partition.  It did boot. 
  I then selected the other windows partition off of the Windows 7 boot 
screen (this is not really a boot manager, it is more like GRUB with 
dementia) and found that WinXP was gone.  I fixed Boot Manager and my 
Ubuntu and eCS partitions with DFSee.

I then tried to recover Windows XP from a rescue CD.  Bad choice. 
Rescue managed to clobber the entire drive and all of the partitions 
when it started.  Back to DFSee.  I did recover Ubuntu and my eCS 
partitions.  Used DFSee again to send Windows 7 to where the sun doesn't 
shine.  Still trying to get Windows XP back on the system without 
damaging anything else.  Right now I am imaging WinXP and a recovery 
partition off of an old laptop drive and will try to put them back (the 
recovery partition is imaged and the WinXP image says it has about 8 
hours to go).

> 
> Oh, yes, go for the 64-bit versions of Ubuntu, and don't bother with
> anything earlier than 9.04! I have not tried Kab - I use Ubuntu/Ubuntu
> Studio.
> 
> Good luck, and let us know how you get on!
> 
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Lothar Frommhold
> <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> 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?
>> 2. Install Kubuntu and run eCS in a virtual machine as a guest? (64 bit VMWare 4.0 supports OS/2 4.51)
>> 3. Install VMWare and run Kubuntu and eCs as guests? (The T61p processor is a T9300, ready to support virtual machines.)
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Lothar


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