Thinkpad T41 Mandriva 2005LE

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We had some problems installing from the full DVD--lots of drive read errors from the DVD. So we installed from the Mini-CD.

This laptop originally had a Mandrake 10.1 installation, with lots of stuff installed. All of a sudden, X quit working correctly in Mandrake 10.1, so we decided to take the opportunity to do an upgrade.

The X problem was really something to do with the XFS server not starting correctly, and so fonts quit loading.

[edit] Partitions

[root@localhost john]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7752 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1626    12292528+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1627        7752    46312560    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1627        2471     6388168+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            2472        2617     1103728+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7            2618        5332    20525368+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            5333        6144     6138688+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9            6145        7752    12156448+   b  W95 FAT32

/dev/hda1: Original Windows partition, with Windows XP
/dev/hda5: Mandrake 10.1 /, Mandriva 2005 /opt (copied former Komodo and Crossover installs from /opt to root)
/dev/hda6: Swap
/dev/hda7: /home
/dev/hda8: Mandrake 10.1 /opt, Mandriva 2005 / (formatted on install)
/dev/hda9: miscellaneous files, room for growth

[edit] Mandriva install

Got kernel errors after partitioning step from DVD. Tried mini-CD instead. Backed up boot sectors to the corresponding root drives:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hda5 bs=512 count=1