Laptops :: IBM TP 240

Hi there,

Finally got my 'newer' laptop last weekend    Nice IBM Thinkpad 240 (Celeron 300MHz, 192MB RAM)

Did a poor mans install booted with the 'vga=789' option to get the graphics to work (Neomagic 128 chipset). Managed to get my MA401 wifi card going after a little searching on the forums and even the external FDD works!

The soundcard chipset appears to be detected and sound did come out when playing XMMS, although after about 30secs it completely screwed up :S (I'll worry about this later)

My main problem now, is that I want to try a frugal install, as the soundchips are badly affected by HDD noise (not good for PSK31    ). I have tried to make a Linux partition using cfdisk, it appears to 'write' the new parition table, but then says it cant read it back. Tried rebooting as suggested, seems the partition is picked up (ie in the slit), but it won't mount it    I've had a similar issue on my mini-ITX box (which means a few GBs are unusable).

Any ideas? Do I need to format these partitions?

Cheers for help in advance.

wooah thats the fastest reply ive had yet

seems that worked! Cheers another snippet to go in my folder of helpful hints ;)