To keep track of progress and to help others who may be doing the same, here are some useful resources if you are installing Debian on a Thinkpad R40:
- http://www.geocities.com/tivarsson/linux.html – I used this guide to partition my default Windows XP installation (with Partition Magic) into four partitions, one for XP, and one each for Linux /, swap and /home (you can also boot a Knoppix distro and use parted to do much the same). Since my HD was smaller, I proportioned the partitions using similar ratios (5.5/7/.5/12.5).
- http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ – I downloaded the netinst CD image from here; actually I downloaded the full seven CD 3.0 r5 set before this, but because it seemed to install under a 2.2 kernel the drivers for the onboard ethernet device (e100) was missing and I gave up on that…
- http://www.thomasmarquart.net/?q=node/17 – This is a very useful page written by someone doing the same, and copying his XF86Config-4 file into my /etc/X11 directory has given me the best configuration so far for X.
- http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/ and http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public/ – The IBM ACPI driver and Debian packaged versions, useful for getting suspend functions to work.
- http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi – I have a PCMCIA Netgear WAG511 card, so this guide on installing the madwifi module was clear and worked first time.
- http://p3scan.sourceforge.net/readme.html – I use Thunderbird for my e-mail, so I set up P3Scan as a POP3 proxy which interfaces with spamassassin / razor / pyzor / dcc-client (all packages installed with apt-get). But the key part is that if you are running it on your localhost, you need the iptables lines from the end of the readme:
# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport pop3 -m owner --uid-owner <uid>
# -j ACCEPT
and the redirection:
# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport pop3 -j REDIRECT --to 8110
change <uid> to the userid of the user p3scan runs.
