swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Following recent exciting adventures reviving an old PC, involving a detour via Ubuntu, I've been wondering whether I should instal it on an ancient Thinkpad I have at home.
It's a great little pooter and I like it a lot, but it's loaded with Windows ME, which I dislike about as much as I like the pooter - plus no-one supports it anymore, and it's vulnerable to viruses, and the thing freezes occasionally - not often, but sometimes.
So I was thinking about maybe taking the Ubuntu CD home, formatting the C drive, changing the BIOS to boot from CD, putting in the Ubuntu CD and da-da! Would that work? Does it matter that the beastie uses a docking station rather than having a built in CD drive?
Your thoughts much appreciated...
It's a great little pooter and I like it a lot, but it's loaded with Windows ME, which I dislike about as much as I like the pooter - plus no-one supports it anymore, and it's vulnerable to viruses, and the thing freezes occasionally - not often, but sometimes.
So I was thinking about maybe taking the Ubuntu CD home, formatting the C drive, changing the BIOS to boot from CD, putting in the Ubuntu CD and da-da! Would that work? Does it matter that the beastie uses a docking station rather than having a built in CD drive?
Your thoughts much appreciated...