2.1's support ends in a couple months.
The last time I tried to put a Linux on an obsolete box, it was on a computer with only 80MB of RAM. Pick an old enough distribution to fit that, and I had all sorts of problems getting a PCMCIA LAN card to work.
If I had got it to work, it would have been usable only as a proof of concept.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
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