From: "Lothar Frommhold" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2566931 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:29 -0400 Received: from static-71-171-102-26.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([71.171.102.26] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1MKJ30-0004cI-DX for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:29 -0400 Received: from irongate.mail.utexas.edu ([146.6.25.6]:59221) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MKJ2x-0002Xm-0P for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:23 -0400 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A010206.4A453EA3.0106,ss=1,fgs=0 X-IronPort-MID: 1130491258 Received: from wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu ([128.83.126.136]) by irongate.mail.utexas.edu with SMTP; 26 Jun 2009 16:33:21 -0500 Received: (qmail 65875 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2009 21:33:21 -0000 Received: from frompc1.ph.utexas.edu (HELO ?128.83.131.26?) (frommhold@128.83.131.26) by wb2.mail.utexas.edu with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) ESMTPSSA; 26 Jun 2009 21:33:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4A453F6F.5040300@physics.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:47 -0500 Reply-To: frommhold@physics.utexas.edu Organization: University of Texas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090410 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] question about installing OS/2 and Ubuntu on a T61p References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Many thanks to all of you! I have started to install eCS RC6a on a clean hard disk, which worked well. Now I shall add Ubuntu (not Kubuntu - thanks Chuck!) but there will be some travel so that I will soon be incommunicado for two weeks. Lothar Chuck McKinnis wrote: > Lothar Frommhold 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 >> > > Come to Warpstock and see it for real. I run WinXP, Ubuntu, and eCS on > my T61. I use the IBM Boot Manager and install GRUB into the Ubuntu > partition. > > I used to have Kubuntu, but I got so frustrated dealing the KDE4 that I > finally gave up and went to Ubuntu. The KDE folks seem to be trying to > make it be more and more like Windoze (we know best type of thing), and > I finally gave up on it. >