Will it run Linux?

[David A. Bandel]

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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:18:01 -0500
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanx to all who replied.  Laptops are sometimes just finicky, but as
long as I can get it to boot a kernel and have a usable console screen
I'll be happy.  Who needs ethereal when you can read raw tcpdump
traffic?

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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