Help installing RH Linux 6.1 on laptop...

[Mike Bilow]

I have doubts about this.  I tried installing Linux on a spare 486 laptop
Monday, an IBM ThinkPad 701CS.  (These were the cool ones with the
butterfly folding keyboards.)  The problem was that I had no PCMCIA
CD-ROM drive handy which had Linux support, so I had to boot DOS and copy
files over from the CD to the hard drive and do the install sourced from
the hard disk.  I could not do a Red Hat install because it would have
required 600 MB of hard disk space, basically copying the entire CD.  I
tried the SuSE install, which only needed about 130 MB, but it failed --
after taking nearly 20 minutes to load the initial boot disk.  Finally, I
ended up installing Debian and it worked just taking all of the defaults.

-- Mike


On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Interesting. I found in the installfests that SuSE seems to install more 
> reliably than Red Hat these days. I have not personally done a Mandrake 
> install, but Mandrake 7 is supposed to be solid also.


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