Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]
"Marcia Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Hello all, Thank you for all of your laptop info and suggestions. I finally purchased a "built for you" Compaq Presario 1700T P600 laptop with 14.1" TFT XGA display, 64 megs of memory, 12 gigs of harddrive, CD rom 56K PCI Modem and 10/100 NIC card. Lilon Batteries and Windows 98 SE. I hope to get it in a week or less. Is there any advice for putting on Linux? Would I better off with Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1? Thank you for your help. Marcia Marcia, Be certain to check the laptop page for advice. I'm concerned about two things in your setup: the PCI modem and Compaq's proprietary bios. Typically (though not 100% of the time) PCI modems are winmodems and not too likely to work w/Linux. And from what I've read, Compaq is know for its proprietary bios that can occasionally be problematic. The laptop page you've been referred to earlier by someone else on our list might be helpful. Good Luck, Mike ~~~ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." --Tom Waits ~~~ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [Re: [newbie] laptops]
"Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Marcia! I don't know what font you're trying to use, but it continues to come out in Chinese at this end! Well, that ,and dots, and big and little empty boxes, intermingled with a word or three here and there, maybe an upside down "A", an "L" or possibly a few math symbols, a puppy dog, fire engine, a big hotel kitchen, and a picture of some round guy with a blade of grass between his thumbs like he's gonna try to blow through the gap and make a buzzy reed noise that always breaks the blade of grass and makes a funny b-shlurpy sound instead! Have I gone off course? --Greg Funny thing Greg is I had the same problem with the original message, but when I hit reply to make a comments such as yours, there was the message in quite readable fashion. I thought the error might have been my web based mail program that I use for this list shrug Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
