IBM Thinkpad 360CSE (No cd drive)

Tsumeone · 08-20-2004, 02:55 AM

I am looking for a distro that will work on this old laptop [50MHz speed I believe, 32mb RAM And 800MB hard disk]. I have tried installing debian from floppy since there is no cd drive, but even with the floppy=thinkpad option set the thing keeps giving errors every time it asks for the root disk and I press enter.

Anyway, I want a distro that will be able to run Apache, MySQL, and PHP so I have a computer to test my web crap on. It has an IBM PCMCIA ethernet adapter 10mbps thing which I can hook up to the router for internet access.

All advice is appreciated =)

Edit: Edited title to show my current issue.

joe83 · 08-20-2004, 11:15 AM

You might want to give slack81.zip a shot. You can install a minimal distro from floppies, get your internet connection working , add packages from the Slackware mirrors then use swaret , slapt or whatever to get everything updated. I use it on my ancient (75mz, 8mb,500m) laptop and it works great. Just google slack81.zip and it'll take you to the website. Another one I've been seeing lately that looks interesting is Amigo Linux. The guy that runs it is a regular poster on this site. You can also ggogle that one to find it.
Good luck.

Tsumeone · 08-21-2004, 02:01 AM

Hmm, Amigo linux looks good but I'm havin a problem with it. When I run the MSDOS shortcut I made to start it in msdos mode, it goes into msdos mode and it uncompresses the thing, lots of words are scrolling on the screen really fast [I'm a linux newbie] and then it starts saying

Quote:

/sbin/agetty: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open share
d object file: No such file or directory
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: No more processes left in this runlevel

The /sbin/agetty thing spams about a zillion times, and it happens so fast that I cannot see what it was trying to do when it started spamming it all over. I also see Id "c1" though Id "c6" if that is important at all. This is a FAT16 windows 95 partition.

The following things I've done are:
-Made sure I put it in C:\, and made sure it extracted with the folder linux and all of its subfolders in it.
-Made sure that the BAT file had /dev/hda1, since I only have one hard drive and one partition.
-Tried adding the lines suggested in the readme thing to config.sys [which made my computer reboot as soon as it loaded the loadlin thing after booting into MSDOS mode].

I'm kinda at a stand still to what to try now =\ If the Amigo guy reads this, he's welcome to email me at tsume@wolfness.com if he needs more info or something.