besides the screen blanking issue i have recently posted (stemming from IBM BIOS which i will solve in a minute), everything went flawlessly in my ancient thinkpad 570, both in rh9 and fc1. rh9 even made me no hard times for the winmodem (lucent/agere), i just installed the rpm for it. however i
could not find the rpm for fc1, and downloaded the generic one which refused to compile. a friend of mine who is a linux guru changed something on
the code somewhere (i did not even asked him what it was), now it is running smoooooooothly...
fc1 on laptop rules :)... of course with xfce4 since kde and gnome is far too heavy for this pII-366 with 128mb of ram...
PS: thanks to charles e. Taylor and bob jones for their answers...
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 02:24:08 +1000, Brad <fuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just purchased a used Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 notebook and with
significant trepidation installed Win2K for my wife and then Fedora for me,
with a view to setting it up as dual-boot.
As I didn't get the original installation CD with the notebook, I had to find
and download all of the Windows drivers to get everything working. This was a
lengthy but relatively simple process once I had found the software on the
WWW.
I then started the Fedora install with 3 the CDs. Fedora detected everything
on the notebook, defaulted to 1024 x 768 with millions of colours, installed
Win2K in the grub boot screen and just... well... worked!
I am SO impressed by this and it has been a great pleasure *finally* getting a
Linux notebook, and not having to use Windoze any more.
Now I just have to get my wife onto Fedora and it will be a consummate victory.
:-)
Cheers, Brad
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