You may have read my posting on how I fared trying to get Linux running acceptably on my Compaq 1700XL laptop. Ultimately I wasn't able to get Linux installed and running to my satisfaction. In the meantime I noticed that VMware had introduced a new version of their software and I decided to upgrade to that version and try it on my laptop. The long and short of it was that I was able to install Mandrake 8.1 with very little effort. My first attempt was thwarted by my failing to perform the correct sequence of actions to get my X server running properly. Additionally, I setup my virtual disk too small and so I repeated the installation with a larger virtual disk (2 gigs). After reading the X server installation description more carefully, I was able to run X at 1024x768 resolution. The other detail is that VMware supports several different ethernet "virtual adaptors". On my laptop the ethernet bridging option didn't work with my wireless PCMCIA adaptor but the NAT support worked perfectly. I can now run my Linux system as a guest on my Windows 2k laptop.
-Alex Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster! "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous Want to know what it looked like 1, 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 years ago? Just look up on a clear night! ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
