[Sderby] Linux on a laptop.

[Graham Hamblin]

Hi

I have recently acquired a Hewlett Packard Omnibook 5700CT Pentium 1 
166Mhz  49meg memory and a 3ghz HD on which I am trying to install 
Linux.

It will not boot from the CDrom and I have tried installing both 
Slackware and Mandrake 9 without success.   I have tried every bbot 
image in Slackware and the one from Mandrake and on every occasion the 
boot process hangs at the Partition check: hda:   I have tried putting 
the hda parameters in eg. hda=5968,16,63 the probed details of hda in 
bios and that results in not being able to find a boot image to suit.

The thing currently has Windows ME on it, having used Linux exclusively 
for about 10 years, I haven't the faintest idea about Windows.  

The question is should I just bin it or does anyone have any idea how to 
get some sort of Linux system on it?   Of course all my older versions 
which may have been useful have long gone, gifts mostly to encourage 
others to the cause.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in anticipation.

Graham

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Graham Hamblin
Red Hat Linux 9
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