Has anyone installed openSuse 11.* on either of these? OK? Problems? Other experiences? I didn’t see them in the list.
I’m anticipating using it in a dual-boot environment, Windows ? on internal drive and Suse on an external eSata.
Thanks.
While you are waiting for a real user to say how it worked, I found a couple of things that might also be useful to look at:
Lenovo ThinkPad W510 [Linux Laptop Wiki]
Lenovo ThinkPad T510 [Linux Laptop Wiki]
Thank You,
Thanks. I’m also thinking about running dual boot - Windows 7 Pro 64 and Suse 11.3, with the Suse running on an external eSata drive.
Is this a good or bad idea?
Thanks. I’m also thinking about running dual boot - Windows 7 Pro 64 and Suse 11.3, with the Suse running on an external eSata drive.
Is this a good or bad idea?
zuzzer, this is your lucky day. I am without a doubt, the number one expert on the subject of running openSUSE from an external hard drive, I do it all of the time, even as we speak right now. Of course, others may disagree on the expert part (but who cares what they think anyway?) and I can post a large message on the subject here if you are interested. The number one item is, you must be able to select the external hard drive as your first boot drive in your BIOS setup. If you can do that, we will be in like Flint.
Thank You,
I am posting this from my new thinkpad W510 (8GB ram, 128GBSSD) I can say that I have almost no problems. WiFi Works (I do have an issue with a 802.1X WiFi network at work, but I think I found the package I need [xsupplicant]) bluetooth works great, most fn keys seem to work just fine. the SD card reader work just fine. I am running the nvidia drivers without any glitches that I have noticed in the past few days that I have had the laptop. the LED that lights up the keyboard works too. battery life is not quite as good as it is under windows 7, but I till get ~3 hours (I got the biggest battery they offer.) I have only suspended to ram (not to disk yet) without out any issues.