Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380D

2000-08-25 Thread James Mahoney
Hello. I am looking into helping my sister purchase a laptop for her to run debian GNU/Linux on. I was wondering if Debian runs fine on the IBM thinkpad 380D with 150Mhz pentiumMMX processor, 80 MB ram, 2.0 gig hard drive. For more information on this laptop, go to

Re: Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380D

2000-08-25 Thread Michael Hall
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:16:32PM -0500, James Mahoney wrote: > Hello. I am looking into helping my sister purchase a laptop for her to run > debian GNU/Linux on. I was wondering if Debian runs fine on the IBM thinkpad > 380D with 150Mhz pentiumMMX processor, 80 MB ram, 2.0 gig hard drive. For >

Debian on IBM Thinkpad 380D

2000-08-25 Thread James Mahoney
Hello. I am looking into helping my sister purchase a laptop for her to run debian GNU/Linux on. I was wondering if Debian runs fine on the IBM thinkpad 380D with 150Mhz pentiumMMX processor, 80 MB ram, 2.0 gig hard drive. For more information on this laptop, go to

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I have a Z505S with Debian, installed from RedHat so I could get the Windows > Refund (but never got it because of an install mistake which will require > Windows to fix :-( ). So it seems you'll have to repartition your drive

Re: 2 pinters on one compu (freazing jobs on queue)

2000-08-25 Thread Heather
> dear debian users, > I want to use this for 2 reasons; > 1. I neet to throw over a swithce for the 2nd printer to be able to be > used > 2. I want to queue jobs on my laptop so that when I get home they get > printed wthout me having to think about it again. > So, is it possible to let lpd frease

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread David Benfell
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:17:45AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I have a Z505S with Debian, installed from RedHat so I could get the Windows > Refund (but never got it because of an install mistake which will require > Windows to fix :-( ). So it seems you'll have to repartition your drive

Re: 2 pinters on one compu (freazing jobs on queue)

2000-08-25 Thread Heather
> dear debian users, > I want to use this for 2 reasons; > 1. I neet to throw over a swithce for the 2nd printer to be able to be > used > 2. I want to queue jobs on my laptop so that when I get home they get > printed wthout me having to think about it again. > So, is it possible to let lpd freas

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk?

Re: Potato on a Sony VAIO notebook

2000-08-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Heather wrote: > > > > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Until I get a CD-ROM for the machine and fix it, I'm stuck without > > > the ability to hibernate. > > > > Why not just ask someone with the same laptop what their partition > > table looks like and fix yours with fdisk