Lucifer Linux wrote: > Testing the live distro at "brick and mortar" stores sounds like a > good idea, although it doesn't seem that practical on Black Friday at > 5:30 a.m. at Best Buy, but then again, that's what refunds and > receipts are for. > > - IMHO knoppix sounds like a good live distro test too. > > I think any recent release ( less than 6 months old) will work for testing in the store, don't expect to get every device such as wi-fi to work. Once you get the laptop home I recommend trying several releases, research using www.google.com/linux devices that aren't recognized immediately. My laptop took some work to get wi-fi to work, and the display was an odd size but worked mostly from the start. Newer releases are more likely to keep up with the newer devices. Jim K
>>>> Can you boot off the optical drive or a usb device? >>>> > > I don't know, but that question raises another question now that usb > external hard drives are cheaper than the internal ones. I have this > maxtor one touch 120 gig external drive that I tried to install & run > Ubuntu on from my desktop without much luck. I mean I have an ext3 or > ext2 partition that reads data but the BIOS doesn't seem to like > booting Ubuntu. > > Actually I can't remember exactly what I did with that. I need to > get around to experimenting with live usb distros. It's one of those > experiments I've been slacking on. > > > >>>> You may have to change a setting to do so. Bringing it to a euglug meeting >>>> where the >>>> > group can look at it usually will find a solution to this type of > problem. Try and find out a model number. > > > >>>> Have you considered the possibility that your friend may not want to >>>> > install linux and is using this as a polite way to say no? > > Perhaps, but it's his computer and his business what he wants to do > with it. I don't really care, but since I'm about to go laptop > shopping within the next 6 months, I thought I'd get the facts > straight about this predicament. > > Thanks once again. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
