[Gllug] Linux Install Fest - 2nd November

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:05, Steve Cobrin wrote:
> On Monday 21 October 2002 16:45, Eric Lee wrote:
> > I have a 2 year old HP Omnibook XE2, currently with Windows 98
> > installed.  If I bring it along, and I realize this is a pretty stupid
> > question, will someone be willing to help me install Linux on it?  (I'm
> > already running Linux on my desktop, but bought it pre-installed from
> > DNUK.)
> 
> sure, how big a disk is installed? How much is spare?
> 
> Try and bring out a listing of the full-spec of the machine, from the 
> manufacture site, especially any information about network card, modem, any 
> pcmcia cards, graphics processor, etc.
> 
> Try running Belarc Windows PC Audit tool 
> (http://www.bararc.com/free_download.html) and printing off the output.
> 

Bringing along the info from http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ for your
laptop model (if yours is there) is very useful too - I've found the
stuff here very useful in the past - at the very least it gives you some
idea how much hardware other people have got working on that model.

Cheers,

Simon

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Dr Simon A. Boggis                                  Systems Programmer
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