Re: [PLUG] "Current" Linux on old laptop

[jazzman@exdomain.org]

Well I have been fighting with the Debian installer for a few days now.  
I'm trying to get it to install on an older IBM Thinkpad 760ED. I
downloaded the boot floppies to start the network install, since
downloading 16 cd images seemed silly, especially knowing i'd probably
only need a few.

The install boots fine and will properly detect any of the following 
PCMCIA Network cards:

- DLink DFE-690TXD
- 3Com 3CCFE575BT
- Socket EA Credit Card Adapter

However none seem able to get an address via DHCP. I have tried manually 
assigning an address and they still won't talk to anything. I have 
attempted to restart the network services and what not, ifconfiged the 
heck out of the network cards... all to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Marc

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Christopher M. Jones wrote:

> Most distros have floppy images included under some directory on the
> install cd. Example: Ubuntu Breezy has install/sbm.bin, which, as the
> README.sbm says, is a floppy boot image. Slackware has them for sure,
> also Debian has them for sure. Don't know about RH, but I'd bet that you
> can find them on there too. You just have to hunt around in likely
> places on the disk.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 17:06 -0400, jazzman@exdomain.org wrote:
> > I need a recommendation and I figured what better place to ask this.
> > 
> > I have an old IBM Thinkpad (760ED... P166 (or 133, not sure), 64mb ram. I 
> > had RH9 on it, but the drive has ssince been wiped. Now I'm ready to 
> > reinstall it but I'm hoping to put a more current version of linux on it. 
> > The only drawback is that whatever version I put on it has to have an 
> > installation boot floppy since I don't think the laptop supports Boot From 
> > CD. Fedora doesn't seem to come with boot floppies, and most distros I see 
> > only seem to come with bootable CDs... does anyone have any suggestions ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Marc
> > 
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