linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??

Thanks Joan, but only a couple of the URLs worked and I have been
fiddling with a couple of the other downloads and trying different
boot disk layouts with little success, so I think I will let the
Sony stand on the shelf a while ... meanwhile, I do have a Dell Latit
ude laptop with around 750meg ram and 30gig hardrive running XP and
a built in CD drive, that does boot up install disks so ... next
question ... which is the best Linux and GUI that I can download??

Regards.

Lee.

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
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> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
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> http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3209
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> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2006-07/msg00226.html
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> http://featherlinux.berlios.de/booting.html
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> http://paulski.com/zpages.php?id=1612
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> --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Lee <leo1949uk@...> wrote:
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> From: Lee <leo1949uk@...>
> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:15 PM
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> > > I have a Sony Vaio 9" netbook which had win 95 installed so I formatted
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