[wplug] Old Laptop

[DK]

Your system is rather old, and may experience issues booting newer
Linux kernels.  I have had this same issue on an old IBM P3 notebook.
However, I would recommend trying Damn Small Linux, aka DSL.  This
distribution is made specifically to help give life to old hardware.

Regards,
Dave


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Weber, Lawrence A <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
> I have an old IBM E600 Pentium II laptop currently running a buggy Win2k.
> It is connected to a wireless network via a PCMCIA card (D-Link).  RAM:128,
> HD:20G.
>
> I would like to replace the OS with Linux and use it for a simple serial
> terminal and occasional wireless web browsing and email. I have tried
> XUBUNTU, Slackware and a couple other LiveCD's to see what distro might work
> but have not been able to get any to boot.  They start but never finish.  I
> recently tried what I thought was a FreeBSD LiveCD but it also refuses to
> get very far into the boot.
>
> Should I be looking at an older version of Linux?  Should I expect problems
> with the PCMCIA wireless card?
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