I've had Debian on my Portege 3025 for nearly two years. The initial install was a bit rough because it wouldn't boot from Slink boot disks. I had to use loadlin from a WinDOS98 partition. The Potato boot disks seem to work fine, at least on this machine.
A search at http://www.google.com/linux for your specific brand and model of laptop will usually turn up plenty of useful information. On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:50:37PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. I heard a rumour that the toshiba laptop I have works with > Slackware, so while I wasn't able to get Debian's boot disks to work, the > Slackware bootamp.i image worked great. Is there a Debian laptop-specific boot > disk? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily > a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could > be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 -- Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for UNIX.
