[TriLUG] New Vista laptop needs Linux

[James Jones]

Carl,

The only copy of ubuntu I had was without live cd. I intend to check
it later with 8.x ( if there is a live cd version )

I want to try it with live cd use first to see what problems I will
need to be prepared for when finally installing linux.

Someone else suggested googling for someone who might have had similar
problems with this model. Have tried that as well. Not seeing too much
yet.


jcj

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried running Ubuntu yet?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:13 AM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> My Christmas present came early. It is a Toshiba Satellite L305 series
>> laptop. The least expensive laptop that Walmart has on sale at the
>> moment ( $398 plus tax ). It is running Vista home. I wanted to see
>> how well it would run on Knoppix 5.1 cd, but each time I boot into
>> knoppix. Knoppix starts, gets into enabling usb, etc and then it
>> produces an error, "Can't find knoppix filesystem".
>>
>> I tried a Centos5 live CD and had something similar happen.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I really do want this laptop to become a dual boot
>> pc. If need be, it can become a single boot Linux pc.
>>
>> jcj
>>
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