Linux on a Laptop?

[demonjinn]

I really want to stick a nix distro on my laptop, but am unsure as to whether any are a simple install, so if any of you could advise I would be very grateful.

jinn

[FoBoT]

what kind of laptop?

i installed mandrake 8.0 onto a newer compaq armada E500 with no problems , but that was about 6 months ago

[Okie]

i hear SuSe is a good laptop distro, since Linux can be downloaded free i would try the three easy distros like Redhat, Mandrake & SuSe and see which one works best on your lappy...

for a RPM based distro i prefer Redhat7.1, my other favorite is Slackware8...

[JALU]

I put mandrake 8.1 on my dell laptop. It is a bit of a pain to get X working, but it's not too hard. I hear that it's pretty easy if you have an inspiron with an ATI video card, not an NVidia like me.

[dO7]

linux on laptops (http://www.linux-laptop.net/) is a good resource - especially for X configuration.

I personally like SuSE

[teeitup]

Debian went on easily to my Compaq Armada.

Laptop is just a PC with pcmcia attached.
It comes down to video chipset, sound chip and a modem.

Read the PCMCIA supported cards list to pick your pcmcia cards. This should make your configuration very easy.

Good Luck,

[berb]

painful for me, couldn't get dual boot working, something to do with Dell suspend to disk and partitioning. Gave up, partly because WINxp is ok, partly because I didn't want to fool with it anymore, I still have my main at home puter as slack though.

[Saptech]

Has anybody heard if Mandrake 8.x and IBM Thinkpad 380XD is a bad couple?

I heard that MDK have some problems with this notebook.

[X_console]

Originally posted by Saptech:
<STRONG>Has anybody heard if Mandrake 8.x and IBM Thinkpad 380XD is a bad couple?

I heard that MDK have some problems with this notebook.</STRONG>
http://spacenetindia.com/tech/linuxthinkpad/

This one is on Suse though. Don't see why you'd have problems on it. If it's hardware problem, try upgrading to the current kernel and see if that fixes things.

[vhg119]

my sony vaio works great.. except the modem.. which is a winmodem.. and the memory stick. i don't know how www.emperorlinux.com (http://www.emperorlinux.com) did it.