Finale : seriously… the finale for that very old HP Omnibook 6000

If you've heard from me before… ya… that I'm struggling with AN OS for that super old HP Omnibook 6000 notebook, which my friend's passed to me… (for what? Long story, and don't bother, not important to know at all!)

So, that's the thing…

Window's out of the question,

So, I tried kinda all sorts of linux, kinda…

Of the ubuntu family, only 9.10 works well, and works well with that super old "laoya" wireless network card, ie. netgear something something… nevermind…

Then, I was not too happy with this ubuntu too, I mean, on this notebook, ie. slow…

So, after I've finally purchased another new decent notebook for myself, during the HP sales, ie. online offering… a compaq presario CQ42-459...

… I then, will have a decently fine working notebook right? Yes, I'm happy with my life, and I've an ubuntu 10.10 on it… (eagerly waiting for 11.04)

But then, for some "itchy hands" reason, and I just want to know if really really really that's the end of life for that super old HP omnibook 6000…

I went on to search for more suitable linux distro…

Yes, I've tried the followings:

Linuxmint,

Debian,

Fedora,

openSUSE,

Lubuntu,

Xubuntu,

…

Some of it couldn't even install… for eg. Linuxmint,

Some of it couldn't even load… for eg. Lubuntu/xubuntu, can't remmeber…

Some of it, load funnily, that, I just don't know how to tackle…

Some of it take a looooooooooooooooooooooong time to read the liveCD,

Some of it, managed to install, by leaving the network card behind… and thought of solving it after the OS is installed and loaded, but then, I just couldn't have a clue on finding the network configuration thing…

At the end of the day…

I finally willing to try this err… childishly-sound linux distro, ie. puppylinux…

Ooh… it doesn't even need an installation, and immediately it detected the wireless card… ie. detect my wireless AP…

Installatin's like a breeze…

But then… WHEN… I needed to create that GRUB thing… arggh… many time I tried, many time,

Upon reboot… it gives me this, "grub rescue>",

I typed set something something… not working,

Help? Not working,

Only "ls" worked… however, I can't proceed,

I tried all the suggestion I found online, doesn't work…

So, long story cut short,

At the end of the day, (again!)

I tried again, and this time, I don't use GRUB anymore,

Instead, I tried GRUB4DOS…

Ooh…

Now, there you go…

 

Amazing piece of linux… (it's independent of any of the linux derivations…)