On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> 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? Its hard for us scavengers to do, but sometimes the better question is: Is this hardware worth putting Linux on? First I couldn't find an IBM Omnibook but I found HP ones... http://www.gbnet.net/~richard/digital/omni.html Basically, the system is pretty low end and maybe would run CentOS-2.1 or 3.9 but would be pretty much pushing it to do so. The hardware is circa 1995 or so and would probably want something from the Red Hat 5.2/6.2 days versus even CentOS-2.1. Long term you are probably going to want a different OS like Damn Small Linux as the Omnibook looks like it hs 64 or less MB. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=8;t=20595 Most of the time, I find that the batteries are going and non-replaceable so I find that sending them to the computer recycling center better than trying to put something on it. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"