A fellow neighbor, retired tech ran into this laptop that he tried to run Win7 on, however, even Linux couldn't install to its pata/ide hard drive. So I dug out a 12 GB hard drive...I experimented with various Linux installs for its non-PAE Intel CPU...some would only run Live, Victor and LXLE. Others would install, but updates broke it, or new programs from Synaptic would break their install, including Lubuntu 12.04.
The one that seems to work best for it is, SolyK for 386/486 32-bit...of course, I'll show him Puppy Wary and Puppy Slacko, the one based off Ubuntu, I think had problems...This fellow had never heard of Linux, yet he had an Android cellphone...
Just in case you run into one of these laptops running PC2100 sodimm RAM, 1.2 GB of it. Yes, it's a slow install, but not as slow as Mageia for '586 CPU.
Joan in Reno
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Posted by: Joan Leach <jleach728@sbcglobal.net>
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