Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:34:22 -0700, > Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > If you do go with the Vaio and get Debian up, please let me know. > > i have a Z505R running under potato. some small minor while installing, > but that was with old bootdisk

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Stephan
> I'm running Debian on an N505VE, and everything is going fine so far. I did an ftp install because the cd's I had were for slink. I did need to grab X 3.3.6 to get X working (the debian ftp gave me 3.3.2 which doesn't really work). I bought a D-Link modem/ethernet card which works great. I'm sti

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:34:22 -0700, Serge Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you do go with the Vaio and get Debian up, please let me know. i have a Z505R running under potato. some small minor while installing, but that was with old bootdisks, and in the end everything worked. the onl

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I am using an Acer Travelmate 342T (I think that is the number). It has a 9 G hard drive, 500MHz PIII eithernet and winmodem outside pcmcia. I installed slink without PCMCIA and upgraded to potato. I still have to work out the winmodem, although others have. Ethernet works easily. It's very light w

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread cls--colo spgs
Stephen Turner wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio > or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian > compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on > either of these models, or a comparison between th

Re: Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Serge Rey
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:48:39PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio > or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian > compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on > either of t

Sony Vaio N505* vs Toshiba Portege 34*

2000-06-08 Thread Stephen Turner
I'm thinking of getting an ultra-light laptop -- probably either a Sony Vaio or a Toshiba Portege. Of course the primary requirement is Debian compatibility. :) Anyone have any comments, good or bad, about Debian on either of these models, or a comparison between the two, or a suggestion for other