Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-16 Thread marc
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. Toshiba Portege 3025 (an older model of the current 3110) > I am particul

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-16 Thread Scott Bigham
On Mar 15, 2000, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? If no one else has suggested it, may I recommend the Linux on Laptops page?[1] They won't all be Debian-specific (which I imagine is what you were interested in, given the mailing list you chos

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dieter Ebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have > solved problems. Gateway Solo 9300: Mobile P-II 400, 160MB, 10GB, 15" LCD, ATI Rage Mobility,

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Heather
> Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? I recently bought a laptop for my husband and he's very happy with it; it came pre-loaded with RedHat but there's been no problem tossing Debian on. I got it for his birthday :) > Could you please tell me the exact type of your

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dieter Ebner wrote: >Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > >Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved >problems. > >I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class: I've got a Thinkpad 600E, Celery 400,

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Laszlo Ladanyi
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have > solved problems. > > I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class: IBM ThinkPa

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 14:39:20 +0100, Dieter Ebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. sony vaio z505r > 6-15 GB HD 6.4 GB HD > 64-128 MB RAM 64 MB (extensible to 196) > USB, serial, parallel 2x USB onboard, s

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? I have, or actually my employer did. And it wasn't all that recently either. It was bought in december. But I'm answering anyways. > Could you please tell me the exact

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. > > I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class: Dell Lat

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Hausheer, Geoffrey say I use slightly diffrent model, Power Slim600 PII333 > I have a Twinhead 600e ultraslim laptop > I have run Slack and Debian (potato) on it without much of a hitch I ran slink on this a few months back, now Patato. > The system

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Graham Ward
Dieter Ebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? I have, and was. > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you > have solved problems. It's an IBM ThinkPad 390E (ENUK to be precise - N for NT (that didn't last lon

RE: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Hausheer, Geoffrey
I have a Twinhead 600e ultraslim laptop I have run Slack and Debian (potato) on it without much of a hitch The system has a 6.3GB drive (2GB linux/4GBWin98) PcTel Winmodem that doesn't work in linux 2.5MB Toshiba Video is supported by XFree 3.3.5 and later

Re: Please tell your success story

2000-03-15 Thread Laurent Martelli
I've just bouhgt a Siemens Modile 360, it's not really a higher class laptop, but the price was pretty attractive : Celeron 300, 64Mo RAM, 4.5Go HD, 12" PS/2 mouse : OK, but if you boot with it, the touch pad does not work Video : OK, SVGA driver, bu