IBM Thinkpad 600X

General Discussion
1

Hi

My wife has sent her PC for repair so I thought I would loan her an old IBM but it was really slow, SO…

I thought I would format the drive and instal Linux.

I have an external floppy drive and a dos boot disk which I used to format ok

I insert the CD with Linux Umbutu on it but nothing happens though I can see the directory with the image on it.

any and all advice appreciated

2

Where did you get the CD? Did you copy it yourself? If so did you use an ISO burner?

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ht/burnisofile.htm

3

The reason your seeing a directory is because you haven’t burned the ISO.

If you’ve got a spare PC, download imgburn (if you have windows). Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to download the ISO again, although you can just transfer it from the CD to a folder on your desktop and then select it from there. Either way, you’ll need to burn the ISO onto a CD and then you’ll be able to use it.

There’s a great tutorial on how to burn ISO’s with imgburn here:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Burning+ISO+Images+with+ImgBurn

Hint - On the second picture, where it says
Write Speed: MAX
Change it to
Write Speed: X4

4

OK Guys, Thanks for the directions

Here is the story so far.

I downloaded the imgburn as suggested but could not burn to a CD as the file was too big.

I therefore burned it to a DVD but remembered the little old IBM 600 only has a CD drive, so…

I pluged in an external DVD drive to USB port but when I fired it up it did not see it !

So I guess I need to either:

  1. Find a Linux o/s smaller than 700MB or

  2. Install a windows o/s then should see the external DVD drive

Any easier suggestions would be most welcome

cheers

5

You should be able to get a CD size version or try peppermint 2 works fantastic on my IBM T22 Thinkpad. http://peppermintos.net/

6

+1 for PeppermintOS (Two) … it will fit on a CD and is based on Ubuntu 11.04

or you could try the Ubuntu “Alternate” install CD image … available here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/
It’s smaller than the “Desktop” image, but I’ve no idea if it will fit on a CD … be aware the alternate install CD has a text based installation procedure not a pretty GUI routine, but it does install the same OS.

Further info here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download

7

Many thanks I have downloaded the Peppermint, used imgburn to create CD which is now installing as I type this.

Great stuff guys and thank heavens for forums.

:slight_smile: