In message <4317AA31.8080900@gmail.com>, "Ja'far Railton" writes:
>David Laight wrote:

>>
>Glad you expert guys are enjoying the thread :-) My options (not to 
>mention my technical know-how), however, are limited:
>
>I can't even try a memory key boot because my BIOS only has a USB floppy 
>boot option - nothing for USB HDD. I can't try the floppy boot because I 
>don't have a floppy drive. I plan to try a -current iso if and when I 
>can get my hands on one but I don't really think that will be a 
>solution. I guess I can try a netboot from my other laptop, once I read 
>through the howtos and get it set up.
>
>I'm surprised that I can't get a working installation on this Thinkpad, 
>which I had thought was *the* laptop choice for NetBSD... My Acer 
>Travelmate was a breeze in comparison (well, it is a newer model) <cue 
>Thinkpad-advocacy rant - Steve?>  Anyway, thanks to everyone who has 
>replied.
>

I'm surprised, too -- I've been using Thinkpads with various BSDs -- 
first BSDi, then NetBSD since 1.5beta -- on Thinkpads starting around 
1994 with the "Butterfly".  The only problem I ever had involved high 
memory on the 600, when using BSDi.

For fun, you may want to try a 3.0beta install CD.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb