Hi, Beartooth: IIRC when discussed in January, people pointed you to the 32-bit distro, as the T42 runs a 32-bit Pentium-M processor.
That's what I'd try. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:59 PM Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Background: F28 has been the first Fedora release that has given > troubles on a couple of old PCs (built for me by friends who speak > hardware; so I don't have specs) -- troubles which other friends > attribute to those PCs lacking hardware that F28 requires. I'm in process > of burning a live DVD (with MATE - Compiz) of F29 which I'll try with > them; if it seems to run, I'll try installing it. So far, I think I know > at least roughly what I'm doing. > > But, to get to the real point, I also have an old T42 Thinkpad > which has been gathering dust. I'd like to do the same with it as with > the PCs. But, if there is anyone anywhere who can say at sight whether > there's any hope, that may save me considerable frustration. How about it? > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User > Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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