If Knoppix works why not install it? I just put Sarge on a Thinkpad 600 and can say, count your blessings. Because I bought the system broken for $75, I was happy just to get it running by replacing the backup battery. It's a 233MHz PII with 64MB RAM. It can run KDE 3.2 but does better with Window Maker and Dillo. Neither Mepis nor Knoppix did much better with the devices than I was able to do by hand, even after reading several sites devoted to this notoriously buggy piece of hardware. Sound and the serial ports are going to take some work, and Windoze tweaking (thank goodness I did not wipe the 98 install that came with it) but I doubt I'll get around to it. The screen, processor and form factor are enough to make me overlook other problems and I'm very happy with it as an upgrade over the 90MHz PI Thinkpad I've had for years.
I'll bet that Mepis and straight Sarge work too. Mepis can be upgraded and kept current with apt, though it's a trial. If you remove all but the testing lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list, upkeep gets much easier. The new Sarge installer does a lot of hardware autodetect and works well if you give it about six gigs of disk space. On Friday 13 August 2004 02:22 pm, Mat Branyon wrote: > You can turn off that update thing. Usually, its just telling you there > is a newer version out. > > Things I don't like about fedora core 2: > You can set up an extra monitor, but you have to hand edit the x config > file to get it oriented properly, then cross your fingers to see if it > works. > the prism54 wireless driver did not work on a fresh install. I had to > tweak it. > It won't mount our iPod for some reason. I just rebooted from running > knoppix, in which everything worked just fine. > Anyone successfully compile a kernel under fedora core 2? I have no > idea why I keep getting all those crazy kernel panics. > Eats battery fast. > > Most importantly, I didn't want to spend my vacation trying to get stuff > to work. > > --mat
