Found my first #ThinkPad laptop in my belongings at my mom's house.
It's an iSeries 1171-L1G. Built in 2000. It was all plastic, i was young and careless, many things are broken.
I don't even know if it will boot, last time I used it was in 2013 iirc ^^
That good old lilo prompt <3 It takes forever to boot - it's a Pentium III 650MHz with 64megs of RAM - it was 192 before but the RAM module was very faulty.
It should be #Debian Wheezy I guess.
Managed to grab neofetch ! It's evilwm ^^
That old Wheezy can't deal with modern TLS ciphers. I won't upgrade to stretch - it won't be able to handle it well with that amount of RAM.
Root password was... root 🙄
Maybe I'll go with OpenBSD and many services disabled 🤔
OpenBSD crashes just after scanning the disks ^^
I removed the hard drive and now it boots successfully :|
So I managed to install OpenBSD by tricking the bootloader. I removed the hard drive, started with the install cd and as soon as the boot prompt appeared, plugged the hard drive in 💫
Once installed, that trick isn't necessary again. Time to struggle with the SMI Lynx 720 graphic card, it will require a full xorg.conf I guess :)
Managed to get my siliconmotion(4) graphic card working with a custom xorg.conf.
I disabled kernel relinking because it takes too much resources, ntpd and smtpd to spare some megs of RAM.
I'm amazed about this low memory usage :) This is not very reactive, but it's useable !
urndis(4) won't work - can't get the hardware address due to a timeout. Will need to use that good old ethernet wire.
This is how it looks from the inside. It's broken everywhere and needed a serious cleaning.
The disconnected card is the modem card. That thing that looks like a RAM module is in fact the Intel pro 100 ethernet lan card.