Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

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I will also recommend debian as George N. White III said in another mail...

- Chunyu

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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!
>
>                 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??
>  --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> What do they know of country, who only country know?
>
>
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