<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Karl F. Larsen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4AA5694C.8090701@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Fred Roller wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">ashwin1711 wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Im talking about IBM Thinkpad R50p model </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">As of 2009-07-27 none of thr R50 series is compatible with ubuntu: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-48NT8D&velxr-layout=printLenovo">http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-48NT8D&velxr-layout=printLenovo</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I also have a R50 series laptop with Windows 98 SE and have tried several times to install a Linux with no success. Like you, the LiveCD will not even run! </pre> </blockquote> I take it from your post that you've tried other distributions. Without trying to offend, have you tried distributions that are not based on Debian? Jon </body> </html>