[Gllug] help! :) ibm lappy install problem

Chanka A. Perera chanka at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 08:23:41 UTC 2005


http://mepis.org/ best solution for your problem which is knoppix base
but easy installation 2.6 kernel better HW detection integrated on it

chanka perera


On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:22:09 -0000, James <j at angelcarpentry.com> wrote:
> Thanks Doug,Hi all.
> Nope still not working , i think all the controlers must be different..
> Was thinking of taking out the drive and using a gender blender plugging it
> onto my desk top.
> What would be the best distro to put on it ? and would i just copy a iso
> image to a dir on the root partition?
> could i even compile it on my desktop (have a very fast duel xeon setup).
> There doesnt seem to be a n answer to my problem  on linux on laptops.
> 
> james
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Winter [mailto:doug at pigeonhold.com]
> Sent: 11 February 2005 18:14
> To: Greater London Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] help! :) ibm lappy install problem
> 
> James wrote:
> > Hi doug , thats great , any chance of getting a list of which disk
> distro's
> > you used.
> > And if you feel like helping me out , its been 1 week on this and still no
> > go, But mines a 240tp
> 
> Just Debian, and the PCMCIA worked first time, so I doubt it's got the
> same components your laptop has.
> 
> Some of the links for the 240 from here had some promising information
> on PCMCIA config, but I suspect you've checked these already:
> 
>      http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> doug.
> 
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