Problems with CDROM installing on ThinkPad 600

[Bill Campbell]

I'm trying to install a fresh version of Linux on my 8 year old ThinkPad
600 which is currently running SuSE 9.2 Pro in hopes that my wife can take
it on a trip to get wireless access.  The only wireless I've been able to
make work on the  SuSE is a USB.

When attempting to install CentOS 4.5, CentOS 5.0 it throws a panic after
loading the kernel from CD, apparently trying to access the CDROM.  Knoppix
4.0.2 boots successfully, but Knoppix 5.0.1 hangs very early on, apparently
attempting to access the CD.

There is no floppy attached to the machine.

Any ideas why this won't boot?

I'm downloading xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso in hopes that may work, but
it will be another half-hour before that's complete.

The machine is an ThinkPad 600 circa August 1999, 256MB RAM, with a DVD
drive.  I have a pretty good selection of PCMCIA wireless and network
cards, most of which SuSE 9.2 doesn't recognize.

Bill
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