Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-29 Thread Mario Vukelic
Sorry, I missed the start of the thread. Some links: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ http://lhd.zdnet.com/superguides/laptops.html http://xtops.de/ http://www.linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=26&aid=7548 http://www.tuxtops.com/ -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-28 Thread Kari Ruohonen
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200 > LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello everybody, > > > > i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. > > Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? > > > > Could you send me some links to know on which laptop

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200 LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello everybody, > > i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. > Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? > > Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:53:11AM +0200, LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: > Could i have yours point of view about install of Linux on others > laptops ? Tricky part is PCMCIA. Especially NIC. PCMCIA modules during initialization become daemon before finishing all initialization. So sometimes race con

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> hello everybody, > > i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. > Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? > > Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install > linux easily. > Could i have yours point of view about install of linux on oth

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Alexander Wallace
I have an HP Omnibook EX3, and installed a debian distro in it (libranet) with no problems, everything worked, I needed an easy recompile of a modifyed tulip driver for the integrated nic which i found in linux-laptop.net. I got everything to work, sound, nic, dvd, apm, except for the modem that is

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Charles Baker
Have a look at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ For a list of laptops that linux has been installed on as well as users write ups of what they did and sometimes their config files. Also, there is a debian-laptops mailing list which is very valuable. --- LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[E

RE: Debian on laptops

2001-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Sep-2001 LAMIRAULT Nicolas wrote: > hello everybody, > > i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. > Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? > > Could you send me some links to know on which laptops i can install > linux easily. > Could i have yours po

RE: debian on laptops

2001-03-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Mar-2001 joe willson wrote: > i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's > annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my > harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my > cpu! i think this is cause

Re: debian on laptops

2001-03-01 Thread Forrest English
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, joe willson wrote: > i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's > annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my > harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my > cpu! i think this i

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600 Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The current boot disks won't allow you to install over > > PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this > > seems t

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet > card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to > the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do > the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmc

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Mike Miller
> "Anselm" == Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current boot disks won't allow you to install over > PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this > seems to be worked on. I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you cop

Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?

1998-02-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > Can any happy (or unhappy) Debian-on-laptop users help me here with > information? I'd say it depends a lot on the laptop in question. My own notebook is a slightly dated IPC PortaPC 5 with a 486DX33 processor, 8 MB RAM, 700 MB disk and a WD90C24A gr