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Re: Linux on notebooks, which one to buy?
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Regarding to Installing Linux - come on! its not that hard! there is a web
> page with all the notebook known models that work with Linux. - all you
> have to do is:
>
> 1. Buy the notebook (IBM & Toshiba are very good ones IMHO)
> 2. Print the web page
> 3. Install your favourite Linux distribution..
>
> the installation (including tweaking all the things) shouldn't take more
> then an hour to 90 minutes.. Those pages already solved all your problems..
Hardly. Case in question: the (many) pages for a Toshiba Portege 7000CT
list procedures for installing RedHat 5.2. Time flows, these pages do not
get updated, and surprise! the same procedures do not apply to RH6.1. A
newbie could be driven to despair by the many diferences.
I spent over 3 hours installing Suse on this Portege; RH would not boot
(initrd problems) - Mandrake would boot but not recognize the CD. Suse
did boot, recognize the Xircom card and let me make the install via FTP -
which led to the discovery of a probable DoS against vanilla ftp as
installed in Suse 6.3 (many open/close very fast kill the daemon until
inetd is sighuped).
Nope, nothing trivial in (many) notebook installs....
Tuxtops.com has many nice machines, some at affordable prices. Also,
the Toshiba's with incorporated CDs don't seem to have any problem. Last
week I installed two Portege's (3x00) via their CDs. Took only the time to
discover you got to press C while booting to make them boot from CD -
the BIOS has no such option.
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