Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-19 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 08/18/2017 01:28 AM, ChunYu Wang wrote: I will also recommend debian as George N. White III said in another mail... Did Debian ever get their act together on SELinux (i.e. ship a functional policy post-Jessie)? -- Ian

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/19/2017 09:08 PM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: For the t42 you need to tweak one kernel parameter. T42-CPU does not support pae-extension. Somewhere down the kernel-line they changed the default setting. From default to 'required', thus very old cpu's won't boot anymore, unless you drop

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-19 Thread J.Witvliet
For the t42 you need to tweak one kernel parameter. T42-CPU does not support pae-extension. Somewhere down the kernel-line they changed the default setting. From default to 'required', thus very old cpu's won't boot anymore, unless you drop this requirement. Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Aug

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-19 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/18/2017 07:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: My guess is yeah, it'll need more memory--regardless of what "modern" OS you manage to install on it. I think even Windows 10 has a minimum of 1GB for a 32-bit environment and 16GB of disk. Fun, fun, fun! Well, installing Fedora 26 on x86ers with

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 10:55 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Do you remember when Gates said we'd never need more than 64K of RAM? It was 640K, but yeah. Of course I ran a 12-user PDP-11/45 with 256K of RAM, but that was then. poc ___ users mailing list --

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/18/2017 10:47 AM, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:15:26 +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > >> I recommend Fedora 26, but need to tweak a lot. Because hardware spec >> are 5 years behind. If me, i maybe use openbox or i3. Use netinstall for >> minimal installation. I saw few post this

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-18 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:15:26 +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > I recommend Fedora 26, but need to tweak a lot. Because hardware spec > are 5 years behind. If me, i maybe use openbox or i3. Use netinstall for > minimal installation. I saw few post this laptop has kernel issue and > unbootable, where you

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-18 Thread Robbi Nespu
I recommend Fedora 26, but need to tweak a lot. Because hardware spec are 5 years behind. If me, i maybe use openbox or i3. Use netinstall for minimal installation. I saw few post this laptop has kernel issue and unbootable, where you live? It better find someone new to make a custom kernel for

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-18 Thread ChunYu Wang
I will also recommend debian as George N. White III said in another mail... - Chunyu On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to > devote it to use with a Garmin

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread George N. White III
On 15 August 2017 at 14:32, Beartooth wrote: > > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to > devote it to use with a Garmin UPS, under > Linux of course. It turned out not to be > suitable for that.

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread Porfirio Andrés Páiz Carrasco
2017-08-15 11:32 GMT-06:00 Beartooth : > >It demanded an i386, 32-bit .iso; > and I did finally manage, after a lot of > grief, to get it to seem to finish an > installation. Upon rebooting, it says only > that it

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread Kenneth Marcy
On 08/15/2017 10:32 AM, Beartooth wrote: > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, Since you did not mention how much RAM it contains, I assume the least usually supplied -- 256 MB. I suggest you remove that memory module and replace it with two modules

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 17:32 +, Beartooth wrote: > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to > devote it to use with a Garmin UPS, under > Linux of course. It turned out not to be > suitable for that. > >

Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/15/2017 10:32 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > Some years ago, I bought an > IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to > devote it to use with a Garmin UPS, under > Linux of course. It turned out not to be > suitable for that. > >

OS for Thinkpad T42??

2017-08-15 Thread Beartooth
Some years ago, I bought an IBM-refurbished Thinkpad T42, meaning to devote it to use with a Garmin UPS, under Linux of course. It turned out not to be suitable for that. I put it into the guest room, where it also