This is a post from a student in a previous term on how to install Ubuntu 7.04 on a ThinkPad T60. The same site has guides for other Thinkpad models and other OSes also.

In general I do not encourage students in this class to install Linux directly on their laptops - running Linux inside VMWare is much safer. However if you are fairly technical, and are willing to risk TOTAL LOSS OF ALL DATA ON YOUR LAPTOP, you may find this helpful. Back up all your data first! Don't say I didn't warn you.

Dennis
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I know a bunch of us have IBM ThinkPads because they are required for our program. I have set up a permanent partition on my laptop and found the site www.thinkwiki.org to be useful. There are tons of guides to hardware support and installation issues for just about every thinkpad model.

A lot of us are using the T60 model. If you want to install Ubuntu 7.04 on this, there is a guide at:

http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_%28Feisty_Fawn%29_on_a_ThinkPad_T60