On 08/15/2017 10:32 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to > devote it to use with a Garmin UPS, under > Linux of course. It turned out not to be > suitable for that. > > I put it into the guest room, where > it also got little or no use. Until last > week, it still had Fedora 22. I've been > trying for days to get F26, or 25, or even > 24 onto it. > > It demanded an i386, 32-bit .iso; > and I did finally manage, after a lot of > grief, to get it to seem to finish an > installation. Upon rebooting, it says only > that it can't boot what it has! What did you install, where did you get it and what, specifically, are the error messages you're getting? There are LOTS of Fedora 26 spins that have 32-bit live images you can try out if you have a DVD drive or can use a USB flash drive on that machine (some old machines can't boot USB drives). > > As a last resort, I've been looking > for a Puppy Linux version. The download > page offers versions for Ubuntu (which > affects me like sand in the teeth), > Slackware (which I've never even seen > running), and M$. Oh, and also for the > eeePC. > > Is there hope?? I believe so but we need more details to help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - -"Jimmie crack corn and I don't care." What kind of a lousy attitude - - is THAT to have, huh? -- Dennis Miller - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
