So ... I finally got a Ghost image that I could map to my ThinkPad hard drive. When I went to restore it off the DVD-R (after about 9 hours trying to make the image), I fould out my Thinkpad's ~19 GB hard drive was a few dozen MB too small for the image and Ghost refused to install it.

I could have probably resized the original VMware Appliance hard drive and reimaged it, etc., but I gave up.

I installed Xubuntu, then tried Ubuntu on the ThinkPad ... both did not like my PCMCIA wifi card, had no sound, and there is a known issue with ACPI when using this laptop with Linux.

So I installed Windows 2000 Server on it and will use andLinux instead for Scratchbox\Maemo development.

As it is, xkbd for OS 2008 was released this morning so I reflashed my N800 with Chinook. I wish I could get SciTE working correctly on OS 2008 as GCC is installed and I could use SciTE for simple C/C++ development on my N800.