Will it run Linux?

[Jerry McBride]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:44 am, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> > David A. Bandel wrote:
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> >> Folks,
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> >> I have a chance to pick up a couple of laptops cheap, but wondered if
> >> anyone here has run them with Linux (and if so, what you think):
> >> Toshiba 4600 Satellite Pro
> >> Toshiba 4260
> >
> > If you are able to give them a trial before buying, the best
> > will-they-run-linux-test I know is a Knoppix CD.
> > Klaus
>
> That only works if you can boot from the CD.  I have some old laptops that
> don't.  They are a true pain to install.
>
>   

I still have three old Toshiba Satellite laptops that I take care of... No 
internal cdrom, but they do have pcmcia slots and accept pcmcia IDE cdroms 
drives. Linux WILL install on these, you just have to make sure the drivers 
are available before you begin the install. The easiest way... setup a 
booting dos partition that can access the cdrom, then run the dos install 
script that most distributions have... Open Linux 2.4.0 and 3.1.0 were a 
dream to install on these laptops.

Gentoo may be a good option also, but do the LOW hardware resources... you 
better check for existing, compatible binaries first.

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