I have installed both Mandrake 5.3, as well as 6.0 on my compaq presario laptop.
It has a pentium 120, and IDE cdrom, the installation was flawless, only problem
I have is I can only do 8bit colors in KDE, or shadows will stay on the desktop
when I minimize windows. other than that it has been very stable, add staroffice,
and you might no even need to dual boot (=
Joshua Speer
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Osamu Aoki wrote:
> First check famous : http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
>
> I have done installation of LM 6.0 to one of the latest Toshiba Notebook
> (Ultra thin type: Dynabook portege SS3300CT). I have documented the process
> in my home page, which is also linked from above site. (See:
> http://home.pacbell.net/aoki/ This is mostly in English for Linux topics.)
>
> In short, following thing have to be checked for newer notebook system.
>
> Chip set used for display. Many new systems are Neomagic ones and if so you
> are OK. Otherwise, you should still be more likely to be OK.
> If you have supported PCMCIA SCSI card with CD-ROM, it's good but do not
> spend money on it.
> Go get cheep PCMCIA NIC (do not get new fast ethernet like I have, NE2000
> compatible), find Linux running desktop PC and connect them (FTP). Follow
> remote installation process (See my home page if you.
> For minor problem like I experienced (Freezed keyboard upon standard
> booting), use your skill to evade it.
>
> It looks like any modern note PC with 586 or better should be able to get LM
> 6.0 running. Good luck.
>
> PS: I had bad luck with my old IBM TP230Cs which crashed with LM 6.0 while it
> was OK with RH 6.0. It's 486 system and may be that was the problem.
>
> Jeanette Russo wrote:
>
> > I need some advice before I buy a laptop. I want to dual boot 98 and
> > Mandrake 6 Venus. I have never installed Linux on a lap top
> > and I would like to know which models are most compaitable since I really
> > want it to work well. I need x to work and prefer KDE.
> > Does anyone have any experience with Laptops who can give me some good
> > choices.
> > TIA,
> > Jeanette
