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Article #47036Re: Want to install to laptop
From: cken
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:00
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Chris, The linux on laptops page http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ has a few entries by people who have put various flavors of unix on a Libretto 50CT ... could well be a good place for you to start & knowing linux people they'll prolly be more than happy to tell you all about it (in great detail) & answer any questions you have :) In article <36A46DDF.93E63E7E@ozemail.com.au>, Chris Dalby <cdprod@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------A61DA0EAC630275836E2327F > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 50 which I want to install Linux to. It does > not have a CD Rom, only a PCMCIA floppy which is configured in the BIOS. > Can I install Red Hat Linux from floppies and where do I get "images" > from? Will I be able to "hot swap" PCMCIA devices? Will I be able to use > my Nokia 5110 Digital phone to access the internet as I can currently do > under windows? > > Any further help from someone who has installed Linux to this laptop > would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, Chris > > --------------A61DA0EAC630275836E2327F > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for Chris Dalby > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" > > begin: vcard > fn: Chris Dalby > n: Dalby;Chris > org: CD Products > adr: P.O. Box 45;;;Landsborough;Queensland;4550;Australia > email;internet: cdprod@ozemail.com.au > tel;work: 61 7 54370755 > tel;fax: 61 7 54370755 > tel;home: 07 54948152 > note: Web Site: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cdprod/ > x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 > x-mozilla-html: FALSE > version: 2.1 > end: vcard > > --------------A61DA0EAC630275836E2327F-- > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,b00b2e33e04eee38 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: cken@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Want to install to laptop Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <7832ra$jtv$1@nnrp2.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 434575120 References: <36A46DDF.93E63E7E@ozemail.com.au> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.06 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 192.9.25.21 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 19 23:00:58 1999 GMT Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux