[LUAU] Linux on laptops?

[gsublett at lava.net]

On 31-May-99 gasp wrote:
> 
>         Hi.
>         i've been lurking on the list for about a week and a half now
> and finally decided to say "hi" and thanks for actually having a user
> group,
> and 2 maybe ask a question. #8~)
> 
> i've lived in hawaii for almost 2 years now, and i thinkit's great that
> there is a users group here. especially since there doesn't seem to be
> much
> else goin on in the way of linux around the island.  course, i don't get 
> out much either, so don't smack me for that one...
> 
> ok, my question is. i have a laptop (p2 233, 32mb of ram, keyboard,
> screen,
> etc...)
>  that is currently running slackware(4.0b3) and due to some malicious 
> user errors (i was playing again) i need to reinstall and was wondering 
> which distributions were supposed to "install easiest" on laptops?
> Slackware seems to have some serious issues with my ethernet
> card (linksys etherfast 10/100), and that is probably going
> to be my major deciding factor, is how well it detects hardware.
> 
> any suggestions?
> thanks
> 
> brian
Brian,

I've installed both SuSe 6.0 and Caldera 2.2 on a pretty generic laptop -
k6 300, 32mb ram Neomagic video, pcmcia ether and modem - without any real
difficulty.  SuSe did a better job with the video using their SAX program
than Caldera 2.2.  Caldera did a better job picking up the pcmcia cards.  In
both cases it was a pretty uneventful install. 

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/mirrors.html is worth a
look

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Gary
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