[newbie] laptop from Hell Part 2

2003-08-24 Thread Erylon Hines
O.K. Last week I installed 9.1 on a firends Compaq Presario 905us. After installing expert with the Linux noauto nomce noisapnp switches I actually got the install to complete, and everything worked but usb and the Realtek 8139 card. After getting random crashes I added to the lilo.conf's

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell Part 2

2003-08-24 Thread Scott
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 22:21, Erylon Hines wrote: O.K. Last week I installed 9.1 on a firends Compaq Presario 905us. After installing expert with the Linux noauto nomce noisapnp switches I actually got the install to complete, and everything worked but usb and the Realtek 8139 card. After

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:28, Roland Cruse wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: I just finished (sort of) an install on a friends Compaq Presario 905US. He had tried multiple times, with multiple distros to get Linux on this machine, Anyone else have

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-15 Thread Erylon Hines
Good idea. If I can't get the rest of his stuff working next week (when I get the pos back), I'll give that a try. e. On Friday 15 August 2003 07:57 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:28, Roland Cruse wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: I just

[newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-14 Thread Erylon Hines
I just finished (sort of) an install on a friends Compaq Presario 905US. He had tried multiple times, with multiple distros to get Linux on this machine, and I made the mistake of saying that I'd never found a computer that Mandrake wouldn't install on. I still haven't, but this one was a