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I am doing well on a laptop (actually 2) with RH 6.2 (Compaq Prosigna 160
and 165).
<br>First get out on the WEB and ascertain that your hardware (every piece
of it) is supported (for RH for example, go to <A HREF="http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi">http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi</A>)
- then go for it!
<br>One note on laptops - from my limited experience - these devices seem
to have a small partition on the disk that contains internal diagnosic/setup
stuff that is specific to the laptop in questions - do not delete that
partition. It may not be essential for the running of Linux on the
machine (my 160 works without it), but it is your only door to the BIOS
that I know of.
<p>acmarable wrote:
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<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I've
got a IBM 760E laptop with 56mb Ram, 2.5 gig hard drive and Addonics pocket
CD-ROM connected via pcmcia, I also have a 3com 3c589c PC card and Megahertz
Xj2560 modem I'd like to use. I'm currently running M$ 98 with no problems.
Can anyone recommend a good distribution (if at all possible) for this
dinosaur? I currently have a copy of RH 6.1 and Suse 6.3 on hand
but am reluctant to give it a whirl just yet. Any pointers or help
would be greatly appreciated.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Clay
M.</font></font></blockquote>
<pre>--
Consider Fractals
a large, calm, black cat
who seems often to be my spiritual leader.</pre>
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