help me fix up this old thinkpad
I've finally gotten the urge to be connected from home again. You can thank the recent events in Perplex City, which has made me itchy to continue my work on the wiki.
Desktop is still sounding sick, so I thought I would monkey around with installing Linux on the laptop Dad gave me. No go--I get an ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP error message. Google suggests that I might be able to get around this if I use the alternative Ubuntu install and set a parameter at boot, which I'll try tomorrow.
But since this happened, I thought I'd check the system stats to make sure that this system could even run ubuntu. It's recommended that you have 256MB of RAM. This laptop? Is an IBM Thinkpad 760XD (ANCIENT), and is maxed out at 104MB of ram. *dies*
I'm guessing ubuntu would run--after all, laptop is currently running Win2K Pro, and somehow managing--but it might not be as efficient as I'd like. Perhaps there's another linux install out there that would work better? I do like ubuntu a lot, but I want to get the best that I can out of this beast. Being able to get on the Internet is a must. Other basic home computing usage such as listening to music, storing photos, and editing documents would be good, too. But really, the point of Dad giving me this laptop is so I have a backup in case my desktop goes down and I can't get on the Internet. So as long I can be "plugged in", that'd be good.
Any of you more geeky types have any recommendations?
Desktop is still sounding sick, so I thought I would monkey around with installing Linux on the laptop Dad gave me. No go--I get an ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP error message. Google suggests that I might be able to get around this if I use the alternative Ubuntu install and set a parameter at boot, which I'll try tomorrow.
But since this happened, I thought I'd check the system stats to make sure that this system could even run ubuntu. It's recommended that you have 256MB of RAM. This laptop? Is an IBM Thinkpad 760XD (ANCIENT), and is maxed out at 104MB of ram. *dies*
I'm guessing ubuntu would run--after all, laptop is currently running Win2K Pro, and somehow managing--but it might not be as efficient as I'd like. Perhaps there's another linux install out there that would work better? I do like ubuntu a lot, but I want to get the best that I can out of this beast. Being able to get on the Internet is a must. Other basic home computing usage such as listening to music, storing photos, and editing documents would be good, too. But really, the point of Dad giving me this laptop is so I have a backup in case my desktop goes down and I can't get on the Internet. So as long I can be "plugged in", that'd be good.
Any of you more geeky types have any recommendations?