At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:09:47 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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?
I had no problems running WhiteBox 3.0 (same as CentOS 3.0) on a Toshiba laptop. It was a 586 box (P133), so I used the 586 kernels. I did have CentOS 4.3 on it at one point (but could not get the ISA-flavor sound card to work). It has 144meg of RAM and I put something like a 20gig hard drive in it.
If you have some sort of functional Linux install on it (even an old Slackware), and have a supported network card for it, it should be possible to contrive to do a network install, esp. if you have another box also running Linux and capable of running NFS.
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