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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos