Ok, I do love my IBM 600e, but I wanted something just a hair faster, etc. I found a decent buy on an x23. The screen is a disgrace, the hinge is cracked, but I think I can live with it. It boots to GRUB>. I made a 1GB partition swap file, a 5GB root partition, and left the rest as /home. Except I left the 100mb first partition and that must be where GRUB is hanging out.

Tomorrow I will delete the /home partition, enlarge the tiny partition to fill in that space. Unless I find somebody to talk me out of that. After that I think I will go ahead and install W98 and use this laptop to download all the available updates, once and for all. After that, I can burn the updates to CD and reformat for whatever it is I want to run. Starting with Slackware.