Linux on Dell laptop?

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi all. I managed to be able to boot from Cd by being told of a boot menu which I can access by hitting f12. However, the kernel on the Slackware-9.1CD1 disk appears to hang after it probes 
for ISAPNP devices. Does anyone know why this would occur? Perhaps trying to install Slackware-10 might eliminate the hang problem? Right now I am downloading the Speakup-modified FC2 Disk 1 
from Bumpy to give that a go. However, I want to avoid Fedora if at all possible...I'm not looking forward to future RPM hell and weird build errors whenever I tried to compile X package. 
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:51:44PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Slackware comes with a root disk called the smart boot manager or 
> something like that.  It is something to allow a computer which can't 
> normally boot a CDROM to boot it, as well as any other partition on any 
> hard drive.  It is called sbootmgr.dsk.  I've managed to boot it before 
> and by hitting the down arrow about 3 or 4 times followed by enter, I was 
> able to luck into the selection for booting a CDROM.  So, that may be 
> another way to get around the problem of the floppy not being recognized 
> by the kernel.
> 
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