What distro for very old laptop

thelenko · 02-03-2005, 02:53 PM

I have an old i386 IBM Thinkpad 365 laptop with 24megs of ram. I was wondering if there are any distros that would work good on this old of a computer? Peferably one that has a user friendly setup, or at least is easy to figure out (im still a linux newb T_T).

Thankyou for your time ^^

secesh · 02-03-2005, 02:59 PM

good luck -- the more user-friendly things get, the more demanding they get...

that's not a box i'd readily recommend a new linux user try and admin... it'll not work well with X (i'm guessing)

--you'll have to use something much more lightweight, and much less user friendly, like actual linux... at the console...

thelenko · 02-03-2005, 03:00 PM

I got win 95 working on the laptop, and my friend said he read somewhere someone got an old mandrake working on a cmp with 75mhz... so im hopeful^^ lol...

somedude88 · 02-03-2005, 06:04 PM

33mhz on win95, how long does it take from bootup to username logon?

lol ATA11! high speed!

Just curious, Derek

thelenko · 02-03-2005, 06:28 PM

Ya I was mistaken its a i486.. (if thats where u determined hte mhz from..)

It didn't take to long to boot up win95 when I was trying it. Although when I tried windows 98 it ran slow.

somedude88 · 02-03-2005, 07:19 PM

ya I realized u misstyped that digit, i am actualy surprised, does your old laptop boot from a CD?, if not, what do you use to boot from cd's?

thelenko · 02-03-2005, 08:35 PM

hmm... maybe I'm wrong about my laptop? lol.... Donno what speed it is exactly T_T, not to familare what i486 and other stuff means

(all i know is its an IBM Thinkpad 365 and has 24megs or ram)

It boots windows from its 500meg harddrive, but I have an external cd drive.

Im thinking I may give up hope on the laptopt T_T. The keyboard has problems, batter doesnt work (needs to be plugged in), and the screen is really crappy (when stuff moves u see a long trail after it).

somedude88 · 02-03-2005, 09:39 PM

500mb hdd!?, lol, wow, I thought I was bad being interested in putting a linux server on a 133mhz and 5gb hdd.

Sounds like that things on its last legs, i'm sure its a 33mhz, I was just pointing out that some earlier motherboards wont boot from cd's.

How does that CDrom drive connect?, cant be USB, can it?

I was interested in buying a laptop, but dont have the money I was thinkin bout getting a 400mhz one since I cannot aford a modern one and running linux on it.

thelenko · 02-03-2005, 11:31 PM

lol this is more of a just for fun thing.. im not actualy thinking of careing this thing around (mideswell just carry a pad of paper in pen for what this laptop can do XD)