[ale] Installing Linux on laptop on New Years Eve

[Matt Kubilus]

FYI, I found Ubuntu to be the most laptop friendly distro when setting up mine.

Sounds like the CD boots in INT13 mode, but has an issue when it
switches to using the linux driver (or lack thereof).

-Matt

On 12/31/06, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> On boot the CD is booted by the BIOS.  So it starts the installs fine
> from first CD.  After that however the CD is accessed by the OS (Linux).
> I had an issue with this one machine I installed and solved it by
> waiting for the boot: prompt then typing:
> ide=nodma
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Howard
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:22 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Installing Linux on laptop on New Years Eve
>
> My wife asked me to put Linux on her Win 2K laptop, which now slows down
>
> within days of my reinstalling Win 2K.
>
> I first tried K12LTSP w/o the LTSP component, which installed fine, but
> on initial boot up gave a screenfull of jibberish text and finally
> booted in a text shell.  I presumed that since she only had 256MB of
> RAM, that the X window launch failed due to lack of RAM.  So, I
> downloaded the netinst version of Debian, which started fine, but then
> informed me after I selected keyboard layout that the CD was not a
> Debian CD.  OK, I downloaded the business card version of Debian netinst
>
> and again, the CD ROM read error after selecting keyboard layout.  I
> tried booting in expert mode, and it does detect the CD ROM, but for
> some reason still ends up claiming CD ROM read errors.  I checked the
> checksum on the iso's and they check out fine.  I then downloaded the
> first binary iso for Debian full install, same symptom.  WTF?
>
> I'm about to try PuppyLinux, but am I missing something here?  How come
> it reads the CD ROM OK at first for the install and then dies at the
> same point?  Note that it reads the Win 2K CD and installs just fine, I
> just hate to keep reinstalling it after it gets malware when I could
> remove the real problem, not just the symptom.
>
> Wait a minute, that was supposed to be "So I'll remove the cause...but
> not the symptom!"
>
> Happy New Year to All!
>
> Daniel
>
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> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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