[geeks] OLD Thinkpad Disk issue

Mon Dec 11 04:45:24 CST 2006

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:50:18AM -0600, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> Unlurking for a moment.
> 
> I have an older thinkpad (380ED) that I've fought into a usable
> configuration (80mb ram, 30 gb disk (via a DDO as it has an 8gb bios
> limit on disk) and will soon have a 16 bit wireless card for it.
> 
> SO... what else can I do to this beast to make it live longer?  I'd
> prefer older windog solutions simply due to the fact they have less
> trash associated...

I had better luck on a similar (Acer) laptop with Ubuntu. There is a special
install CD for computers with less than 256m RAM. 

Geoff.
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