[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues

[Steve Smith]

Dell has always been easy and at one time IBM actually
supported Linux on it's laptops.  My HP went fine this time
and I know of guys in the group with fujitsu notebooks that
have great machines.  Also, ACER is supposed to be a good
machine.

But I've never had a smooth install on a Sony laptop and I
have two.  One I finally had Emperor linux install -- and am
not using any more because it's a nightmare to upgrade and
needed kernel mods for the install to work.  The other works
(a PGC6230 I think) but has other problems.  The second
machine needed a special XF86Config file and I never did get
the firewire working on.

I think that in general, the older your laptop, the better
your chances of an easy install.  And there are all kinds of
resources on the net to help with laptop installs.

Steve S.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Christopher Wagner wrote:

> My laptop installs on my Dell Latitude CPi series laptop have always gone
> smoothly (installed RH 8, then Debian 3.0r1 Woody).  I installed on an old
> Toshiba Satellite Pro 445 (I think that's the model) and it went smooth as
> glass, if maybe a bit slow.
>
> I've seen it go in smoothly on IBM Thinkpads as well and Gateway Solos.
> Though I've seen problems with HP and Compaq units, and with Acers.
>
> Just thought I'd throw that in there so people don't think that it's a pain
> installing Linux on most laptops..  I've had pretty good experience with it.
> :)
>
> - Christopher Wagner
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Steve Smith
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> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues
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>
> Also, laptop installations get very interesting.  I've never
> had an install on a Sony go smoothly.  What are you
> installing on?
>
> Steve S.
>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, augie wrote:
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> > Meg Holden wrote:
> > > I was helping a friend install Red Hat 9 on her laptop today and we
> > > ran into an interesting problem.  I'm still kinda a newbie at this so
> > > I thought that somebody here might have a clue. We boot from the CD
> > > and get the Red Hat Options (Install in Graphic mode, Install in Text
> > > mode, boot in rescue mode...). From there we tried Install in both
> > > graphical mode and text mode and would get the next screen, but from
> > > there it seems to be frozen.  It's the check CD or skip option
> > > screen, but no commands would work at all.  Any ideas? Thanks, Meg
> >
> > Usually during an install there is some kind of logging going on on one
> > of the virtual terminals. You could check those; could be a hardware
> > error. Ctrl-Alt-(F1..F12).
> >
> > augie.
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