At 06:28 PM 6/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Anyone with experience installing Linux on a laptop with PCMCIA cards and a
>> built-in CDROM able to pass on some urls that might be helpful in the
>> process? Laptop-specific?
>
>   I tried on a Hitachi 4140. A 5.0 update from CD-ROM did get the drivers
>working. 5.1 did not go. I suspect the CD-ROM drive can't reliably read
>the new CD-ROM, yet can read the older CD-ROM's.  Also, we get a "header
>2" error on the second floppy with both 5.1 and 5.0.
>
>   I did do it on a Cannon Innovabook 150C, using pcmcia SCSI and LAN
>cards.  But I just can't get it to run right again! (Suspect the
>occasional Wondoze use screwed the interrupt settings or something.) 
>
>    Neither of these seems to run X properly!  And I am supposed to get
>the Canon ready as a gift for my father...
>
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Have you thought about installing FreeBSD insted of LINUX ?
Matt Soffen
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