Lenovo T500 and Wubi Linux
Recently I decided to install and learn how to use Linux on my IBM / Lenovo T500 laptop having seen how easy it is to install from Vista. I learned from youtube that all you need is the Wubi program. The whole system could be installed and removed right from Windows! If you want the link to the program is type in 'wubi' in the search bar of Google.com and it should be the first thing that show up. But after about 2 hours of trying to get the program to install and failed here's what I learned that you need to do to get the program to install correctly.
The Lenovo T500 is a great laptop that comes with two graphic cards -- an integrated and a discreet card -- that is swappable without having to reboot the computer. Unfortunately, the Wubi Linux system currently does not have this hot swapping capability. So when you go to install the program it fails to find the correct display driver. So in order to fix this problem, you have to decide first which graphic card you want to use and manually set the correct type in the BIOS. On the Lenovo T500, the BIOS can be accessed by pressing F1 while the system is booting up. There's no on screen indicator about this so I had to learn it the hard way by trying with the various key combiniations (i.e. DEL, ESC, F12, ThinkAdvantage and F1) before find the right one.
Once you set the display card, Wubi should be able to complete the installation process without any problems.
Complete instructions can be found here: WUBI on the T500
The Lenovo T500 is a great laptop that comes with two graphic cards -- an integrated and a discreet card -- that is swappable without having to reboot the computer. Unfortunately, the Wubi Linux system currently does not have this hot swapping capability. So when you go to install the program it fails to find the correct display driver. So in order to fix this problem, you have to decide first which graphic card you want to use and manually set the correct type in the BIOS. On the Lenovo T500, the BIOS can be accessed by pressing F1 while the system is booting up. There's no on screen indicator about this so I had to learn it the hard way by trying with the various key combiniations (i.e. DEL, ESC, F12, ThinkAdvantage and F1) before find the right one.
Once you set the display card, Wubi should be able to complete the installation process without any problems.
Complete instructions can be found here: WUBI on the T500
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