[CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comSun Mar 1 19:31:43 UTC 2009
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Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot > floppy. Any suggestions? Or is CentOS entirely the wrong Linux to be > thinking about for this? What are you planning to do with it? Given the current prices on much faster/lighter laptops I'm not sure how much time you want to waste on an old one that isn't going to be a good GUI workstation anyway. If it boots from USB or a floppy that transfers bios control to the CDROM you can probably make the install work. Centos3.x might be more lightweight and efficient if you don't need current desktop apps. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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