[wplug] linux on a laptop

[Jonathan Billings]

I think this is probably the best advice yet.  Particularly this part:

 >  boot with " linux noprobe noauto nopcmcia ide=nodma nousb nomce"

If you have troubles, bring it to an Installfest, I'm sure I could give 
a hand, I see a lot of linux laptop installs, and each one has it's own 
little catch which makes it difficult.

Jonathan Billings


On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 03:53  PM, Russ Schneider wrote:

> Roc&Jes wrote:
>
>> Hello there.  My name is Jessica.  My husband and I are having a 
>> problem installing Linux on our laptop.  It is a Compaq Presario 900Z 
>> which came with Windows XP already installed.  We wanted to do a dual 
>> boot like our desktop but it seems to get hung up on the PC card.  
>> After we select the language and the country, it goes to install and 
>> then we get an error message saying that the Linux cd is not in the 
>> cd rom when it is.
>>
>
> Try this:
> http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/~kumarv/compaq.html
>
> From a quick search on Google, it seems lots of people have had 
> similar troubles.
>
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