I have an old Thinkpad iSeries 1472 (2611-472) laptop. It’s a 1999 vintage Intel mobile Pentium II 366 MHz machine that has served me well with only a few problems along the way. It’s been running Redhat 9 for a while and I thought I should update it to Fedora Core 2 since RH9 is past its end of life.<\/p>\n
Knowing an upgrade of RedHat is more trouble than it’s worth, I loaded Fedore Core 2 from scratch. It was OK except for the keyboard repeat rates being way<\/em> too high. I fixed those with the control panel, then updated everything with Yum and that’s when the trouble started. On the next bootup, I got lots of errors from fsck. The hard disk flaked out on this machine only once before, so I thought maybe it had developed a bad sector. I booted the Knoppix live CD and ran a full check of the disk. No bad sectors. Next I suspected the old battery had a power fluctuation. I reloaded on AC with the battery out. Everything was fine until I did the Yum update. The first boot hung. The second got more fsck errors. I really didn’t think Fedora could cause this. I suspected heat-related problems due to an aging fan. I was about to give up on the machine as too expensive to fix. Luckily, I’m stubborn. I dropped back to RedHat 9 to eliminate the FC2 variable. There have been no problems since. I still don’t know what about FC2 could cause this. If it’s specific to this machine, I’m out of luck. This might be the last running i1472 on Linux in the world. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have an old Thinkpad iSeries 1472 (2611-472) laptop. It’s a 1999 vintage Intel mobile Pentium II 366 MHz machine that has served me well with only a few problems along the way. It’s been running Redhat 9 for a while and I thought I should update it to Fedora Core 2 since RH9 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}