Dell Latitude L400

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 08/22/05

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:25:13 GMT

    I picked up this pizza-sized subnote a couple of days ago, just because
    I love my subnotes. I've one tiny problem with it.
    It has no OS.
    Has anyone any experience in installing Linux to a notebook with no
    removable storage whatsoever? Failing that, any experienced
    recommendation for a distro which I can lob on the HD via another
    machine? FWIW, I've had a go with another drive with an existing
    Knoppix/Debian installation, which puked when it came to starting X.
    I'm thinking Zipslack to get me started, but not having used that for a
    few years, I'm not sure what the usb support would be like so I'd be
    able to juice it up a bit with say, SuSE or whatever.

    Specs:
    700MHz PIIIm
    256MB RAM
    10GB HD
    Texas Instruments TI1410 CardBus controller
    Crystal CS4281 + CS4297A (AC97 CODEC) sound controller
    ATI Mobility M AGP 4MB graphics
    Lucent 1646 V90 modem (not too bothered about this)
    3Com 3C920 10/100-BASETX PCI bus master Ethernet
    Synaptics touchpad
    1x chipset USB port
    1x chipset IRDA port

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :) 

    -- 
Cheers,					http://www.dotware.co.uk
Jim			  http://www.dotware-entertainment.co.uk
Maybe the Internet has the answers I need. It certainly answered my 
questions about wang enhancement.
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