Linux and Toshiba

Sonja Michelle L. Thomas sonjamichelle@earthlink.net
Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:43:52 -0700


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I have seen linux running on many Toshiba laptops. I had RedHat
5.2-6.2 running on my Portege 7010. Only problem I had was with the
the winmodem.  Jean has a good idea about looking at the Linux Laptop
Page. Should be many resources in there.

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Sonja Michelle L. Thomas


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From: "J.L.Francois" <frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Linux and Toshiba


> It seems like on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:19:14AM -0700, Nicholas
> Draven scribbled: Orig Msg> Hello all.  
> Orig Msg> 
> Orig Msg>     I recently was tasked to install Linux on a Toshiba
> Satellite laptop.  So far I have not been able to get Linux
> installed since the cd-rom does not recognize the Linux boot
> sector.  I have found this to be true also to some degree with the
> a-drive.  When I do get it to boot, there is a problem with the
> video, just going blank. Orig Msg> 
> Orig Msg>     Has anyone here installed Linux on a Toshiba?  Any
> good hints? Also, if there has been success... which distribution? 
> I have been to slashdot, and freshmeat, and have not seen that much
> said, nor the Toshiba website.  Anyone know of any other good
> resources? Orig Msg> 
> Orig Msg> Nick
> 
> I am currently writing this email from an SSH session from a 
> Toshiba 100CS laptop. Its the same one I bring to PLUG meetings
> when I remember to grab it.
> 
> I installed with Debian so I did not have the CDROM problems you
> are seeing since no CDROM is needed.
> It was a 2 Floppy boot/install and the rest was done via NFS and
> APT. You get a chouce of NFS/FTP/HTTP/APT and a couple of others
> when
> you do a Debian install.
> 
> Have you looked the the Linux Laptop FAQ?
> 
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