On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, tech lists <techinfolists@> wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed & used Debian on either this > (P-7805u) or the simiilar 7811 Gateway laptops? I'm having trouble > finding any success stories on Google ( or this mailing list, or the > debian-laptop mailing list, or linux laptops website) for these > laptops or any Gateway FX laptops (or even Gateway laptops in general) > for any linux distro. The laptop has been out since the middle of > last year with the only change coming at the end of last year with a > slight downgrade on the screen resolution. Surely someone's tried > linux on this laptop in the last 9 months? > > If anyone is using this laptop with Debian or any linux flavor, is > there a known procedure for updating the bios (if/when necessary) > without either booting into Vista or without a Windows partition at > all?
a) AFAIR, Debian has a special mailing list fully deducated to laptops. That may be more useful. b) Try one of the Debian stable LiveCD, for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-500-i386-gnome-desktop.iso and that will give you almost exact look as if you work in already installed system. If you will face a problem, that will be almost exactly the same problem as if you face it with installed system. So, basically, you have a chance to resolve possible upcoming problems before you actually install the system. -- С Уважением, Марк Гольдштейн Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
