<DIV>I had problems getting Slack installed on on old Gateway 2000 laptop. it had like a 500M drive and the CD and floppy were swappable, but NOT hot swappable. So i had to make a little tiny fat partition and have it load dos. Then i had to copy zImage up to the little DOS partition and then use LoadLin to boot up the install disk image. It was a mess. Then the next struggle was getting a decent resolution in X. XF86Config was a pain. </DIV>
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<DIV>Where are you running into problems?</DIV>
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<DIV>Eventually I got it going, and it ran sweet. I had some fun on that little box. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Mark O'Shea <mark@musicalstoat.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 05:24, Robert Macaraeg wrote:<BR>> I am wondering if there will be an install festival?<BR>> I am in need of some help to install linux on my<BR>> notebook. I have tried two different distro and<BR>> nothing works. I will pay in beers if needed.<BR>> TIA,<BR>> Bob<BR><BR>Hi Bob,<BR><BR>I don't know if there are any plans to have an intallfest soon in<BR>Nottingham (and I couldn't help if there was as I'm living overseas at<BR>the moment) but if you tell us what problems you have then perhaps we<BR>can offer you some advice. <BR><BR>Have you had a look at the site http://www.linux-laptop.net/ ? It has<BR>links to lots of people's sites that have put linux on a wide variety of<BR>laptops and have documented their experiences.<BR><BR>Also, what with laptops being so portable, you could take it along to<BR>any of the NLug events and I'm sure someone
would be there that could<BR>help.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>-- <BR>Mark O'Shea<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nottingham mailing list<BR>Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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