On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:27:50 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:54:33 -0500 Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I just purchased my first laptop (haven't even turned it on yet.. > | still charging ;) ), a HP Pavilion ze4630us, and am wanting to put > | Gentoo (what else?) on it. Any tips or suggestions for installing > | Gentoo on a laptop? Anything different about the install I need to do > | differently from a normal install on a desktop machine? > > I don't usually say this... But if you're brave, consider taking a look > at a 2.6.x kernel at some point. With 2.6.x I get an extra 25% battery > life thanks to the cpufreq stuff, and my PCMCIA USB2 card works. > > Of course, please remember that Gentoo probably still doesn't officially > support 2.6.x kernels on x86 blah blah blah own risk experimental > flying monkeys. > FYI, I own no laptops, but I have 6-8 b-o-r-i-n-g months of 2.5.x/2.6.x flying monkeys under my belt. Meanwhile I've missed out on all the screwing around gentoo has been doing messing with the 2.4.x officially approved kernels! My general impression is that your laptop is less likely to break with 2.6 than 2.4 at this point. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.1-mm2 [ M$ ] "A customer is only a cash-delivery vehicle and a partner is only a potential target to be acquired, destroyed or slowed at all costs." -OrangeCrate.com, Novell: Quiet Warriors, Jan 17, 2004 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
