On 15 August 2017 at 14:32, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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!
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.
I have an old i486 PowerEdge server with IDE disks and
a serial port that I use to mainly to manage a room full of
Ferrups UPS's and to clone IDE drives for use with an
old industrial PC running Win2K.
I settled on debian with a lightweight X11 configuration
which has been fine for my needs:
Is there hope??
If you need internet access you should stick with a current
distro, but such old hardware is rarely worth the effort as
you end up dealing with failing hardware. RAM, disk drives,
and cooling fans are prone to age-related failures.
George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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