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At 08:22 PM 11/29/99 -0800, Ed Miner wrote: >i am in the market for a laptop, and would like to run linux as my >primary system on the laptop alongside windows 98. can anyone recommend >a laptop for which i will not have a lot of problems trying to get the >audio/cdrom/dvd to work? i am currently thinking about sony vaio's >however, i would like to hear back whether people have gotten linux to >work on those? otherwise what systems do you recommend? dell/compaq/ibm? I picked up a good deal on a Vaio at Microcenter's big sale a couple of weeks ago. After some dorking around, I managed to get it up and running as a dual-boot system. There's some web resources that you should look at: especially don't go and repartition the entire hard drive (as I did) because there's a little section there that is used to save the suspended system state. Also, I got a "kernel panic" or some such message when I tried to install Linux on its own; dual-booting from LILO requires that enter "linux" at the LILO boot (or "dos" to go to windows) to avoid that message. I don't know why, I don't really care, as long as it works. As for choosing a laptop, I'd say just go for the one with the keyboard you like best, and also that has a "three-spindle" design (hard drive, floppy drive, and CD ROM all integrated into the basic box). And do a Google (or whatever) search on "linux+[laptop model/make]". People tend to write up and publish their experiences with installing Linux on laptops, and that can give you a good idea of whether the installation will be hard or not. Enjoy! -pl +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Loshin http://Internet-Standard.com | | | | _IPv6 Clearly Explained_ Morgan Kaufmann January 1999 | | _TCP/IP Clearly Explained_ 3rd ed Morgan Kaufmann June 1999 | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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