My First Post

Hello in Blogging Land. Here is my blog on my efforts to resurrect an old laptop. I've had it for a couple months now and I thought I would give some background and the current state.

Background

I got and NEC Ready 120LT for helping repair someones pc. The perks of beeing a neighborhood geeky is that you commonly get paid for services with old equipment. The system specs are

A Cyrix 200Mhz Processor
32MB RAM
2 Gigabyte Hard Drive.

When I got home I started up the laptop and learned 2 things. 1, My little laptop could only hold a charge of 3 minutes and that it took Windows 98 more then that long to load. So I got on my desktop and dowloaded several linux ditributions. I Downloaded Debian, Knoppix, College Linux and Vector Linux. I also had Fedora Cores 1 & 2. I tried installing College First which didn't work because the hard disk was to small so I went with Vector and it worked. I normally would have tried the other ones but my family and myself were in the middle of a move from Anchorage, Alaska to Pocatello, Idaho. We drove down and as we stayed in hotels i wouls fiddle with it but nothing major.

Fast forward to last night. I found all my linux intall disks and thought i would try installing something different.

BAD IDEA!!!

I started with the Fedora's. Core 1's installer crashes on start up and Core 2 restarts the system as it's starting to boot. Next i tried Debian but about Halfway through installing the base system it froze up. Come to find out I had a major gash in the CD. So I went back to Vector. I installed vector and everything went fine. I rebooted and what the crap should come up but a horrible sight. L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40.... making its way across the screen. I think LILO the boot loader broke during the installation. Not the first time so I get to start over by trying to reinstall Vector again and see if I can get LILO working.

Well theses are the state of things as they stand now.