Hi, The linux on laptops site has useful information and tutorials: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com
For your particular laptop (or something very close to it), they have a tutorial for installing redhat linux 9.0: http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jac/deliverables/htmls/redhat9oncompaq2500.html It deals with your problem of the firewire port. Jason -- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason > I have received my new Compaq Presario 2540EA and while Windows > works on it nicely I decided I prefer to install some kind of a > Linux distro. > > I found a set of Red Hat 9.0 CDs on my desk so I started to use them. > > boing: it got stuck quite at the beginning when it was trying to load > the driver for 1390 (I have a built in firewire in this notebook). > > OK, maybe I was aiming too high. Let's try Red Hat 8.0. Luckily I have > a copy of that too. > > The same happened there. > > Good, so you want to wrestle with me, eh ? > I won't give in. > > I picked up the SuSE 8.0 CD that I am using on my older notebook. > > So far the installation works. I have no idea yet if it can see > my hardware correctly or not. Hmmm, bad signs, > it started to ask these intimate questions about my monitor > suggesting it is a Samsung/unknown model. > Who the hell knows what this monitor is ? > > Anyway I am quite sure I'll try to install Debian on this machine so > while I'd be happy to get a clue on how could I convince the machine > to install RH 9.0 I also would like to know if it is safe to use the > network installation of Debian ? > > How secure is my computer during installation before I can harden it > manually ? > > I attended Shachars presentation in August where AFAIR he suggested > to pick up a Debian derivative distro. Install that and then > get-apt to unstable. Is this what you recommended ? > > Any other recommendations ? > > Gabor > http://www.pti.co.il/ > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
