Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?
at some point around 12 Feb 1998 12:58:39 -0600 Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on. I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmcia scsi adapter as well. i did not find pcmcia-modules to be necessary in my case (may be i was lucky as far as the hardware i have). i ftp-ed the pcmcia-cs package to a dos floppy and copied it to a fresh install of debian 1.3.x and did a 'dpkg -i'. this allowed me to use dselect w/ ftp. if people are interested in a few more details, i have something at: http://www.htp.org/~sen/debian/hu2/install.html of course, it's only for one particular laptop (dec hinote ultra2)...YMMV -sen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: Can any happy (or unhappy) Debian-on-laptop users help me here with information? I'd say it depends a lot on the laptop in question. My own notebook is a slightly dated IPC PortaPC 5 with a 486DX33 processor, 8 MB RAM, 700 MB disk and a WD90C24A graphics controller. Debian runs just fine and dandy on that machine. At the university, we have two notebooks which are basically Texas Instruments workalikes with a Pentium-133 and 40 MB RAM, and they are great Debian machines -- I'm using one of them as my libc6 development machine, actually. The only thing about these is that the display is based on a Cirrus Logic chip which doesn't appear to be very well-supported by XFree86; I have to use an older version of the server which is the only one that seems stable. (The XFree people say that the particular driver hasn't been tested a lot.) In a nutshell, you will want to check carefully which graphics chip the computer is using, since this is the area with the most incompatibilities. Another thing that might be problematic is APM, as not all notebooks implement APM completely within the BIOS -- some do the power management stuff under Windows only. The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on. There is a `Linux Laptop Page' on the WWW which will be easy to find through Altavista etc. I don't really think this is a topic for debian-private so have Cc:-ed this answer to debian-user (which I don't have time to read myself :^(). Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau . [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them. --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?
Anselm == Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current boot disks won't allow you to install over PCMCIA ethernet or off a PCMCIA SCSI bus, AFAIK, but this seems to be worked on. I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmcia scsi adapter as well. Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on laptops; recommended?
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've done several installations on laptops with a PCMCIA ethernet card. If you copy the pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-modules packages to the laptop (with a floppy), you can install them with dpkg and do the rest with dselect and ftp. Should work for a pcmcia scsi adapter as well. As another data-point: I'm writing this on an IBM 760CD. But yes, I did have prblems getting PCMCIA support going (no apm symbols in the 1.3.1 boot-disk kernel.) -- Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
