This is a collection of somewhat dated files describing how to install Linux on various older laptops (before Ubuntu, getting hardware to work on a given laptop was a hit-and-miss affair, and a lot of chipsets, such as the Neomagic chipset, were not fully Linux-compatible for years).

I also have some notes on getting Scientific Linux 6 to work on an Atom N455-based netbook (a Lenovo S10-3, to be exact) in my blog.