Problems with CDROM installing on ThinkPad 600

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>On 10/1/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>What exactly does this kernel panic look like?  Have you tried booting
>with noapic and/or acpi=off kernel parameters?

I'll have to take a look if the xubuntu install fails (or perhaps
even if it is successful).

>You might want to give the Fedora Live CD a whirl too.

I may do that.

On the other hand, my brother said that he has a machine in his condo where
my wife will be staying so it isn't critical that I get this done.

Bill
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