laptop question

[Leo J Mauler]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:44:19 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Sunday 16 November 2003 03:56 am, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> 
> > Feel lucky.  Getting Linux to run on laptops is a piecemeal 
> > operation, and anyone who successfully gets it to run properly 
> > on a laptop is someone who has worked on it for days, weeks, 
> > months.
> 
> Leo, I've installed Linux on some IBM laptops over the past year or 
> so - systems ranging from P 300's to 800's or so - and I haven't had 
> any more difficulty with them than with desktop systems.  I've used 
> either Mandrake or RedHat and been able to use the GUI on first 
> reboot.

I'm sorry, I should have stated that "low-income people like me" 
have problems with laptop installs. 

Folks who can  afford high-end laptop hardware have a better time of 
it since the newer stuff is getting more Linux support than the older 
laptop hardware.

If you can afford a used laptop costing more than $150, you'll have 
*his* experience.  

If you can't, you'll have *my* experience.

Right now mine is choking on the Mandrake 9.1 installer in *text mode*.
Four hours just to get through the *language selection*.

I'm hoping that Morphix might work better.  I'm also looking into Slinky 
and R.U.L.E.  for low-end installs.

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