As others have noted, the Debian 1.1 disks work for installation on Thinkpads. That is how I originally bootstrapped mine. Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but I believe that the culprit is the bzImage kernel format. When compiling a custom kernel for my Thinkpad 760ED, I had to make sure that I used "make zImage" rather than "make bzImage" or I could never get it to boot. This means that you have to take care not to let the kernel proper get too big, so don't include anything you don't need and make everything a module that you can.
I assume that the 1.1 disks use zImage and the 1.2 and onward disks use bzImage, which would explain why the old disks work. -- Robert Coie Implementor, Intrigue Ltd. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .