Comments on: Ubuntu Linux on an Ageing IBM Thinkpad

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:30:35 +0000

Thanks for the info. I will give 9.10 a try on the same laptop.

By: maevek

maevek — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:41:08 +0000

Thanks for the info – I’m hoping
this will solve the screen-res
problem with my 390X -
which has been limited to
800X600 when trying the “latest”
Ubuntu.
– Maeve

By: Seoras

Seoras — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:39:04 +0000

Thanks JargonTalk, a word of caution however. I am currently running this laptop on Ubuntu 7.10 very successfully but I’m having problems in upgrading to 8.04 so will probably keep 7.10 which can be downloaded from http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/
UPDATE! I have now managed to get Ubuntu 8.04 onto this IBM ThinkPad 390X. I couldn’t get it to boot off the original 8.04 CD so I burned another copy and restricted the burn speed to x4 which produced a usable CD.

By: JargonTalk

JargonTalk — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:29:52 +0000

Found your journal entry about installing Ubuntu 5.04 on your old IBM Thinkpad 390X quite fascinating as I have the same model, though upgraded years ago to a 20GB HDD and 256 Kb RAM. It’s been running reliably for years now (except for the batteries) on Windows 98 SE, but as all forms of rational support have disappeared, and since it’s probably due for the HDD to be repartitioned, your upgrade got my attention. And now that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has been released, it looks to be quite a viable upgrade, and time to give it a shot. Thanks for sharing your info!