On Wednesday 09 May 2001 13:09, you wrote:
> You also won't find a working install. I tried the text install and it did
> exactly what I figured it would do. It still doesn't recognize the PS/2
> mouse. Thus, you get the new 8.0 image, and you can't do a thing.
> <sigh> There goes two days worth of work. I'm just glad I didn't try an
> upgrade on a real, working server.
>
> So for the time being, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't support, nor run on an IBM
> Thinkpad, and presumably, any computer using a PS/2 mouse.
>
> Not quite so, I have MD 8.0 (and 7.2) before that on my Sony Vaio laptop,
the touchpad on that is PS2, it also has a PS2 port for an external mouse -
they both work (BTW so does a USB mouse but it's not "hot-swappable")
