Sony Vaio 505TR

2000-11-10 Thread Jeffrey R Bradberry
Hello, I have recently purchased a used Sony 505tr laptop. I am a regular Slackware user, but I'd like to try out Debian on it. Can anybody give me some tips? I have successfully managed to boot off of the official 2.2 cd, using 'boot: linux ide1=0x180,0x386' which causes the Sony PCGA-CD51/A c

Sony Vaio 505TR

2000-11-10 Thread Jeffrey R Bradberry
Hello, I have recently purchased a used Sony 505tr laptop. I am a regular Slackware user, but I'd like to try out Debian on it. Can anybody give me some tips? I have successfully managed to boot off of the official 2.2 cd, using 'boot: linux ide1=0x180,0x386' which causes the Sony PCGA-CD51/A

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-10 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Steve Dobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:32:37AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the > > other day and advanced the date by 20 years !.

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-10 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Steve Dobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:32:37AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day >and advanced the date by 20 years !. I