UPDATE (22. May 2007): It seems that duplicity don’t work with SSH at all :( The problem is a call to sftp, that don’t work.
The problem is, that cd in the below isn’t executed, only ls -1 is, which give the content of the users home directory.
‘echo -e ‘cd /path/to/the/backup/directory
ls -1′ | sftp -b – [...]

The installation hung in VMware, adding the below to the boot string, solved the problem:
noapic nolapic

This blog-post should have been about installing FeistyFawn on an IBM T42, but EVERYTHING I needed worked out of the box, quite cool :D
The only think that doesn’t work, is the fan control. Which by the way, doesn’t work in Windows either. I uses the tp-fancontrol script from thinkwiki.org
Save tp-fancontrol as /usr/bin/tp-fancontrol and tp-fancontrol.init as [...]