I just wanted to let everyone know (this is mostly for the googlers in the house) that Red Hat 9 installs just fine on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. It’s a 333MHz K6-2 processor, so don’t expect it to be fast or responsive, but it works. I’m having PCMCIA IRQ issues (I haven’t been able to make any of my PCMCIA cards work yet), but hopefully I’ll get the resolved. If not I might try Gentoo or NetBSD.
The IRQ issues could also be hardware related. We shall see. At bootup, it was kind enough to tell me that I should really try passing pci=biosirq to the kernel. Tried it, no luck so far.
Next step is to get some flavour of Linux back on my friend Adam’s IBM thinkpad.