<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div>In my experience Thinkpads are pretty well supported, could you elaborate where you are having problems installing Debian error messages etc? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile</div></div></div> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: lranderson <lan89295@bigpond.net.au> <br>Date: <br>To: plug@plug.org.au <br>Subject: [plug] IBM Thinkpad <br> <br><br><br><br> Hi one & all,<br><br> I was recently given two IBM Thinkpad laptop computers they both<br> run Windows XP professional which I have been able to bring up<br> without any difficulty.<br><br> Both machines seem to be in good order & may not have been used<br> in quite some time.<br><br> It was hoped that I could run a linux operating system ie Debian<br> all my attempts so far to overwrite Windows has failed.<br><br> Any suggestions/help would be most welcome.<br><br> Thanks<br><br> Laurie<br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.org.au<br>PLUG Membership: http://www.plug.org.au/membership<br></body>