[Novalug] A problem loading linux on my *NEW* Laptop??

[Ken Kauffman]

Or use OpenSUSE or Kubuntu if you're attached to KDE.

K

On Jan 10, 2008 8:13 PM, Mike Shade <mshade at mshade.org> wrote:

> Greg Mickle wrote:
> > Just the other day I went out and bought a brand new laptop
> > from Best Buy. I bought a Compaq - Presario T2330 Laptop.
> > It has Vista Home Premium addtion on it. I tested my linux
> > (SuSE 10.0) to make sure it at least liked the network card
> > and it did.
> >
> > I wiped out the NTFS partitions using an old copy of MSDOS
> > 6.22. To my surprise!?? Linux has no idea what kind of hard
> > drive is in this thing?
> >
> SuSE 10.0 is probably too old to recognize the SATA controller in the
> laptop, at least out of the box.  You may be able to load other drivers
> at time of install.  My advice would be to try a newer version of SuSE,
> or give (k)Ubuntu a shot.
>
> -- Mike
>
> > Has anyone else got linux to load on this type of laptop? I
> > dread having to put Vista back on and only being able to
> > run (YUCK) windows on it.
> >
> > If there is a distrubution of linux that can handle this or
> > a driver and some instructions on getting my Linux on this
> > machine I would greatly appreciate any assistance with
> > this!!
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
> >
> > Greg Mickle
> >
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