Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael J. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Linux on Librettos > I'm looking to put Linux on my L50. One factor in choosing a > distribution is support for the L50's hardware. So, with that > in mind, I'd like to find out what Linux distributions people > are running on L50s, how the installs went, horror stories, > love stories, etc. I'm running RedHat 6.2 (with an option of either Gnome or KDE) on my Lib 50 (32MB ram / 3GB HD). Screen redraws are a little slow but acceptable. Suspend to disk works fine. PCMCIA works OK. Haven't tried IR or sound. Installation was a breeze (this is from memory, so it's close to correct ;-). I used Partition Magic to create an ext2 partition and a Linux swap partition. I copied (using Win95) the base and RedHat folders to the root directory of a FAT16 partition on my HD (takes ~500MB, so if you have the original 800 MB drive this won't work for you), copied loadlin.exe, initrd.img and vmlinuz from the dosutils(?) folder to the same partition, then restarted in MS-DOS mode and ran "loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img". Told it to install from the HD (it'll ask what partition the two install folders are on, but you can just guess until you get the right one). The rest IIRC was straighforward. Mike ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
