[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues

[Christopher Wagner]

My laptop installs on my Dell Latitude CPi series laptop have always gone
smoothly (installed RH 8, then Debian 3.0r1 Woody).  I installed on an old
Toshiba Satellite Pro 445 (I think that's the model) and it went smooth as
glass, if maybe a bit slow.

I've seen it go in smoothly on IBM Thinkpads as well and Gateway Solos.
Though I've seen problems with HP and Compaq units, and with Acers.  

Just thought I'd throw that in there so people don't think that it's a pain
installing Linux on most laptops..  I've had pretty good experience with it.
:)

- Christopher Wagner
chrisw at pacaids.com

Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
P.O. Box 9144
San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
http://www.pacaids.com/
(415) 454-4868 x116
 

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From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
Steve Smith
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:13 AM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues


Also, laptop installations get very interesting.  I've never
had an install on a Sony go smoothly.  What are you
installing on?

Steve S.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, augie wrote:

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> Meg Holden wrote:
> > I was helping a friend install Red Hat 9 on her laptop today and we
> > ran into an interesting problem.  I'm still kinda a newbie at this so
> > I thought that somebody here might have a clue. We boot from the CD
> > and get the Red Hat Options (Install in Graphic mode, Install in Text
> > mode, boot in rescue mode...). From there we tried Install in both
> > graphical mode and text mode and would get the next screen, but from
> > there it seems to be frozen.  It's the check CD or skip option
> > screen, but no commands would work at all.  Any ideas? Thanks, Meg
>
> Usually during an install there is some kind of logging going on on one
> of the virtual terminals. You could check those; could be a hardware
> error. Ctrl-Alt-(F1..F12).
>
> augie.
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