[geeks] Never thought I'd ask this

[Phil Stracchino]

Francois Dion wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> ...but, anyone got a copy of XP you got with a machine and aren't ever
>> going to use?  I'm tearing my hair out trying to find an OS that works
>> properly on this Thinkpad i1300.
> 
> If you had at least 256MB I would have said, try Belenix. I've never
> tried 192MB. I have belenix on a USB key on my keyring because it
> boots on everything we have (x86 wise) and it supports UFS, ZFS, NTFS,
> FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3.
> 
> It also comes with XFCE and KDE. It is an opensolaris distro.

That'd certainly be something interestingly different to try.  The
principal problem with the thing, though, is it has a buggy IDE chipset
and an OHCI USB controller that's prone to hard-lock the machine if
probed at boot.  (With Gentoo, I was able to work around that by telling
the system to probe it as UHCI instead.)


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