I recently acquired an IBM Thinkpad ?2620? from my in-laws basement. The think has 20MB of ram, roughly 2GB of disk, some gummed up PCMCIA slots, and a downright nasty j-mouse. It currently has Win95 installed, but I'd like to get Linux onto it.
My main goal is to have a good command-line distro running on it with acceptable networking support. Of course I'm doing this just to have something to do, but hey it should be amusing. Might send some pics into AfrotechMods when its done! What I need from FWLUG is: 1. Advice. I know I can stuff a decent Ubuntu install into 1GB or less, but it'll likely choke on even a minimal set of services. What distros are out there that would give me acceptable support of pcmcia network adapters, an acceptable text-editor (I prefer nano, but really should learn vi), a few screens (3 or 4), a development webserver (like CherryPie or WEBrick) and w3m?? A good package mangler system like RPM or apt is a plus. Oh and I don't have a CD drive or USB ports. So it'll have to boot from a floppy and set up a network connection. 2. A wireless PCMCIA card. I've got a few 10 and 10/100 PCMCIA cards running around, but I'd like to be able to lug this thing into meetings and at least appear to be able to take useful notes. Anyone got one they'd be willing to part with? So any thoughts? -- -- Jon Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS - I've had it running for 10 minutes and Windows95 has already frozen. _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
