I know very little about Linux but would like to participate. I have an old laptop with "Pentium III" and "Designed for Windows 98" stickers. I was going to sell it off, but I think now I could install Linux on it instead.
What's the easiest (or best) way to do this?
What kind of laptop? Does it have a CDROM drive?
Quote from: Paul Turley on February 11, 2007, 09:33:41 AM
What kind of laptop? Does it have a CDROM drive?
Compag Presario 1800 with CDROM, but it doesn't burn CDs. My desktop can. It's own internal hard drive is small, only 5 gigs.
5 gigs isn't a lot of space but it is doable. I run Ubuntu on a 6.4GB drive here.
If you don't want to waste time burning CD's you can request free Ubuntu CD's from here:
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
The CD's contain the 6.06LTS version, which is easily upgradable to 6.10 once you have it installed.
I can try burning a CD. Shouldn't be much harder than CDs I burn for my car stereo system ;)
The download is long so I'll let it go while I take my shower (yes, it's late, but I'm retired!).
Bruce, be sure to get the Unofficial Guide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
While it has its critics, I found it invaluable.
Bruce: Amazon has several books on Ubuntu. I bought all I could find, and I think I ended up with something like seven of them. Some were aimed at beginners, some intermediate and some advanced. I figured by getting all of them, I should keep myself covered as my skills grow.
I burned the CD. It will run from the CD, but takes forever. I would like to replace XP on the laptop with Linux, but it won't install - it just hangs.
Some laptops have issues with interupts and PCI/PCMCIA.
There should be options at the boot screen for such things.
I will look later for the options.
Hi,
You could try CenOS (http://www.centos.org/), also. It is based 100% on (sources of) Red Hat but without references (logos) to Red Hat. It is VERY stable and reliable, and could be used to install Oracle databases too, because Oracle approved only Red Hat and Suse distros...
I installed a single server in one 2Gb Hard disk. CentOS have all the ISOs you need. You effort in only download what you need, build the CDs and install...
Sven
IRQPOLL NOAIPC NOLAIPC ACPI=OFF PCI=NOACPI NOACPI
That's the one - it turns off PCI interrupts.
Thanks, guys, we'll give it a go!
Bruce, I had a problem installing the Server version of Ubuntu on my laptop to upgrade from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft, so I tried with the Alternate version, and it went through without a hitch. It's another option....
You will also need to modify the boot script to include the same option.
Another thing to turn off is hotplug - it hangs on HP laptops.