I got a Thinkpad 600X for only $5US recently. I tried Puppy 4.2.1 but during the boot, the optical drive (in fact several I tried) was not recognized so I couldn't use it to finish the install.
In addition, there was a brief warning that flashed about ruining the IBM serial eeprom. Kinda scary.
I tried Lupu 5.2.8 with the same results.
I then installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS. It allowed a complete install but at the first re-boot the file system had to check and repair itself.
About ready to recycle the Thinkpad, I decided to give Racy a shot.
Wouldn't you know it? Racy is the only Linux I tried that let the optical drive be recognized and used in the GUI after install and reboot.
I played a couple of music CDs with Pmusic to verify consistent readability.
It must have something to do with the kernel version and loaded/available modules, and I don't know how come there has to be such a divergence in Linux structures to let one version work when another could ruin the IBM serial eeprom.
Wish I had a deeper understanding of it all. Anybody out there willing to help me "get it"?
puponmanyoldlaptops
Puppy Racy and An Old IBM Thinkpad
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Re: Puppy Racy and An Old IBM Thinkpad
I've seen something along that lines a few times. It has to do with the type of CDROM hardware or the connection -- partway through the boot, the drive remounts (and the hardware was identified as something other than initially there), and since the boot hardware is not as intended, it then "disappears".puponmanyoldlaptops wrote:I got a Thinkpad 600X for only $5US recently. I tried Puppy 4.2.1 but during the boot, the optical drive (in fact several I tried) was not recognized so I couldn't use it to finish the install.
In addition, there was a brief warning that flashed about ruining the IBM serial eeprom. Kinda scary.
I tried Lupu 5.2.8 with the same results.
I then installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS. It allowed a complete install but at the first re-boot the file system had to check and repair itself.
About ready to recycle the Thinkpad, I decided to give Racy a shot.
Wouldn't you know it? Racy is the only Linux I tried that let the optical drive be recognized and used in the GUI after install and reboot.
I played a couple of music CDs with Pmusic to verify consistent readability.
It must have something to do with the kernel version and loaded/available modules, and I don't know how come there has to be such a divergence in Linux structures to let one version work when another could ruin the IBM serial eeprom.
Wish I had a deeper understanding of it all. Anybody out there willing to help me "get it"?
puponmanyoldlaptops
I don't know about the eeprom warning...
So Racy ran, is that OK for you, or did you want another version running?
Did you try Wary? Or Lupu5.25 Retro:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ppy-5.2.5/
I'm running the latter (5.25) on my old 333MHz Compaq laptop.
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Re: Puppy Racy and An Old IBM Thinkpad
RetroTechGuy wrote:I've seen something along that lines a few times. It has to do with the type of CDROM hardware or the connection -- partway through the boot, the drive remounts (and the hardware was identified as something other than initially there), and since the boot hardware is not as intended, it then "disappears".puponmanyoldlaptops wrote:I got a Thinkpad 600X for only $5US recently. I tried Puppy 4.2.1 but during the boot, the optical drive (in fact several I tried) was not recognized so I couldn't use it to finish the install.
In addition, there was a brief warning that flashed about ruining the IBM serial eeprom. Kinda scary.
I tried Lupu 5.2.8 with the same results.
I then installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS. It allowed a complete install but at the first re-boot the file system had to check and repair itself.
About ready to recycle the Thinkpad, I decided to give Racy a shot.
Wouldn't you know it? Racy is the only Linux I tried that let the optical drive be recognized and used in the GUI after install and reboot.
I played a couple of music CDs with Pmusic to verify consistent readability.
It must have something to do with the kernel version and loaded/available modules, and I don't know how come there has to be such a divergence in Linux structures to let one version work when another could ruin the IBM serial eeprom.
Wish I had a deeper understanding of it all. Anybody out there willing to help me "get it"?
puponmanyoldlaptops
I don't know about the eeprom warning...
So Racy ran, is that OK for you, or did you want another version running?
Did you try Wary? Or Lupu5.25 Retro:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ppy-5.2.5/
I'm running the latter (5.25) on my old 333MHz Compaq laptop.
Actually Lucid 525 Retro is here
http://www.smokey01.com/JamesC/uploads/ ... 0.5-v4.iso
and the thread is at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 627#521627
I still run it on several of my older boxes and it still seems to work well.
Did you try Wary? Or Lupu5.25 Retro:
I did try Puppy 4.2.1, My Wolfe 02x, Lupu 5.x and they all suffered the disappearing CD Drive Syndrome.
Really, for whatever as-yet-to-be-foretold-reason Racy was the only distro that
let the thinkpad work normally.
Really, for whatever as-yet-to-be-foretold-reason Racy was the only distro that
let the thinkpad work normally.