“I had an interesting situation the other day. My old 300MHz
Celeron based IBM ThinkPad 240 notebook (a great little 2.2 lbs.
sub-notebook) spends most of its time just lying around. I have
newer notebooks in the home and office. But, none of them are in
the size/weight class of the old ThinkPad. So, I still carry it for
personal trips just to offload digital photos on the hard disk. The
problem was I split it into 2GB and 4GB partitions and the 2GB
partition for Windows had gotten full. So, I reformated it as a
single 6GB partition. I gave some thought to installing Ubuntu
Linux or some other interesting Linux distro but the 240 can’t boot
from a USB CD-ROM drive. I could have carved a small DOS partition
to load a distro into and then boot from a Linux boot
floppy…”