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? > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
