best way to install linux to a laptop

[Brent Harding]

Might be worth trying, may just go to linuxmall and get one for a couple
dollars, then I can get familiar with how redhat does something, and see
which is best. How do you deal with the drive swapping? Will linux care, or
recognize when I pop the floppy drive out and put the CD in to mount it?
I mean swapping the drives, as laptops need that now, don't know if this
particular one will have a network card card in to utilize the other
system's cd which does, although one would have to disconnect that from
it's existing network, and hook the cable in to the laptop nic.
Now I've been using zipspeak a little bit, once I back up my current linux
partition I might copy it in for a real test. Getting the floppy tape
drivers compiled may be tough in zipspeak, though. At 07:33 AM 10/18/00
-0600, you wrote:
>I have installed Redhat on a laptop successfully.  I would also like to take
>the liberty of saying that Bill, WB2FLW has also installed redhat a number
>of times on laptops.
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>Using the speakup installation disk for redhat, and the CD-ROM, I had no
>problems in the install process.  I have also used the laptop in a network
>install of redhat on to a desktop with no problems.
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>My recommendation to you, is go for it.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Brent Harding
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 6:59 PM
>> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> Subject: best way to install linux to a laptop
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>> 		I am going to be using linux on some laptop at some
>> point. My friend and
>> I are going to be getting it going, probably redhat as at least I hear it
>> allows one to choose reasonable defaults instead of just being asked
>> individually what I want when I'm not sure what every library is
>> used in. I
>> kind of want to get acquainted more with redhat as my isp uses
>> it, and it's
>> hardware detectability, seeing I've not a clue yet what the laptop will be
>> yet, but I think the synth will be an external double talk. We
>> will both be
>> trying to learn more about linux by doing this, seeing he hasn't
>> experimented around as much as me seeing he didn't want to wipe out
>> everything, and thinks everything is so difficult compared to windows. I'm
>> likely to use this in a future job opportunity, and I've borrowed
>> linux for
>> dummies from RFB, a good starting point. If this laptop requires the
>> swapping of the CD drive and floppy, how could we obtain a talking install
>> and use CD for installing the packages? We have no network we can directly
>> use for mounting the CD nfs style on another machine so I can boot from
>> floppy. I'm not even sure if the laptop in question could boot from CD.
>> Seeing the school network admin would rather run another line
>> than allow us
>> to put in a hub, and they seem to be slow on it, how can we get
>> linx on the
>> laptop without sight?
>>
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