On the subject of laptops, I too have had innumerable problems with major brands, but the one that I must recommend, as I have had no problems related to linux with the 5 models I own, is Toshiba, i can guarantee absolutely any linux to work perfectly on: Satellite 2060CDS Satellite 2650XDVD Satellite 1700CDT Satellite Pro 42xx/43xx/46xx Satellite 30CDT Of those, the two models I have not owned, but that are based on the same system board as the SatPro 42xx are the SP43xx and 46xx... Distributions tested: Gentoo, Knoppix, Gnoppix, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian. Cameron On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:53:39 +1300, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:43:09 +1300 (NZDT) > Mark Foster wrote: > > > FWIW the Presarios are quite picky when it comes to Linux in general - My > > partners Presario requires a few tweaks to get it working right. Having > > recently sold it to a friend who is putting Linux on it, hes having to do > > the kernel builds on another box as it wont install properly on the lappy > > itself... > > Laptops arent the best examples for livecd generic testing, as theyre > > often the most picky. > > maybe for that reason they are the best. > > as for me i finished downloading chill's cd at about the same time my cd writer gave up the ghost! > > I'll give the iso a shot in vmware tonight, although IIRC that is on the blink after my last kernel upgrade, and i wasn't going to bother fixing > it until i upgrade to 2.6.11 *sigh* the life of a hacker. > > > > That said, my Asus works fine with Knoppix... > > > > Mark. > > > > > > > I tried the live cd on my girlfriends compaq presario notebook - > > > but it got lots of I/O errors and didn't boot ! > > > (wah) > > > > > > I haven't had a chance to try it on my system yet, and it could have > > > something to do with my downloading/burning.. (though I doubt it) > > > > > > I'll let you know > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:55:53 +1300, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote: > > >> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 10:35 +1300, Chilling_Silence wrote: > > >> > Nope, I took, the quick and Easy route of Remastering NavynOS. > > >> > > > >> > The guy already had some nice tools etc there on it and I wasnt sure > > >> > if Catalyst was all I wanted. Somebody said that this wasnt done > > >> > with Catalyst? > > >> > > >> I believe catalyst _will_ do it, but there may be a lot of stuffing > > >> about, more so than with NavynOS from my quick look at their site. > > >> > > >> > > > >> > This has had a lot of ideas stolen from n00b feedback on Ubuntu and > > >> > Knoppix, like Gnome, Gaim, Firefox, XMMS, gMplayer, and it wouldnt > > >> > be linux without Frozen-Bubble ;-) > > >> > That and Ive changed the default theme, so that in the words of a > > >> > first-time Gnome user it doesnt "look like various shades of dog > > >> > poo". > > >> > > > >> > If it all goes well, I may end up doing on from scratch, may end up > > >> > just modifying NavynOS some more - We'll see. > > >> > > > >> > Got 7 people on the torrent so far, so its no long being limited by > > >> > my 128kbps sorry excuse for upload speeds. > > >> > > >> Make that 8, and my 256k connection from orcon seems to be far better > > >> at feeding torrents than downloading them! download rate 9, upload > > >> rate 15 GRRRR. now its 6/16. > > >> > > >> > > > >> > Regards > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Chill. > > >> > > > >> > Nick Rout wrote: > > >> > > > >> > >great fun isn't it! did you use catalyst? I have used it once or > > >> > >twice. I made some custom boot cd's to turn windows boxes into > > >> > >distcc hosts for a gentoo installfest we did here, I wanted > > >> > >something with exactly the right versions of gcc/binutils/distcc. > > >> > >No X or anything, I thought i'd give that a spin sometime. > > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz > > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. > > -- > Nick Rout > Barrister & Solicitor > Christchurch > <http://www.rout.co.nz> > <nick@rout.co.nz> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. > -- Kung Foo Webdesign http://kung-foo.co.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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