Re: Installing Slax on my hard drive?

From: wd10 (nospam_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 09/27/05 

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:24:52 -0400

On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:04:11 +0000, Rick Morris wrote:

>
> Have tried to install Slackware 10.1 but it has not been much of a success
> yet. It would not recognise any partition but my Windoze one. Too bad there
> isn't a distro that is more compatible with my Toshiba wireless. Slax works
> great but downloading and saving stuff is a problem I haven't figured out.
> Sad to say that Windoz is getting used as much as Linux on my laptop.
> Fedora (and FOX) are so easy to install but won't recognize my wireless. I
> think after a few more viewings of Harry Potter movies I may have the
> magical spells to type into the terminal figured out.
>
> Thanks for the advice, I may try Slackware again.

Is your Toshiba a centrino? I use Linux on a Toshiba laptop. A lot of
distributions don't work with the Toshiba fan and power management with
the default installation. Two distros that do are Suse and Debian
(including Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc.). I can't remember if SLAX does or not,
but you can boot the live cd and check. I've settled on Ubuntu for my
Toshiba laptop and bought a used Orinoco Gold wireless card for $25.
It works great, and I almost never have to go into Windows for anything.
You can download the Toshiba laptop utilities here:
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html

I never could get them working when I was using Fedora Core 3 -- it's not
an easy install for a beginner so I generally use distributions that
already have the utilities included.

Also check this page:
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Hardware_Support/Laptops/Toshiba/

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