> I just got a Sony vaio P3 laptop that came with windowsXP. It is my first
> laptop. Has anyone had experience with putting linux on laptops? I
would like
> to make it a dual boot with Workstation 3.1. Is this possible? Does linux
> work well on laptops? Any hints, tips and advise would be greatly
appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Vern
I've installed both COL 2.4 and SuSE 7.2 on an IBM Thinkpad. Both
installs went very well.
You're biggest (and initial) concern will be to partition and get a
loader (grub I assume) in place without losing the Windows setup or
destroying something.
To do this on my Thinkpad, I initially built a grub boot diskette and
installed COL 2.4 and used the boot diskette to test things out
(including booting into windows using Grub from the diskette)
Once I had that working, I was free to write grub to tme MBR knowing
that I could still boot in from the boot diskette in case of problems.
The install of SuSE 7.2 on the Thinkpad was probably the most
problem-free of the 5 installs I have done. No problems.
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