[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues

[Meg Holden]

Thanks for all your help.  In response to the type of laptop, it is a
compaq, we wiped the drive but I was wondering if other people had had
any problems, guess I forgot to mention the type.. I'll suggest the
other stuff, hopefully that will work.
Thanks,
Meg
--- Steve Smith <sjs at sonic.net> wrote:
> Dell has always been easy and at one time IBM actually
> supported Linux on it's laptops.  My HP went fine this time
> and I know of guys in the group with fujitsu notebooks that
> have great machines.  Also, ACER is supposed to be a good
> machine.
> 
> But I've never had a smooth install on a Sony laptop and I
> have two.  One I finally had Emperor linux install -- and am
> not using any more because it's a nightmare to upgrade and
> needed kernel mods for the install to work.  The other works
> (a PGC6230 I think) but has other problems.  The second
> machine needed a special XF86Config file and I never did get
> the firewire working on.
> 
> I think that in general, the older your laptop, the better
> your chances of an easy install.  And there are all kinds of
> resources on the net to help with laptop installs.
> 
> Steve S.
> 
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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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