Monday, March 29, 2010

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

 

Hi Lee,

I guess having that Firefox 404 add-on might make a difference, or something with the links I found.

As to which Live CD/DVD to try on that fairly up-to-date Dell laptop, Mint should be good and it comes in KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Lxde, and perhaps other GUI desktops.  A lot of people like Ubuntu, Mandriva, PcLinuxOS, OpenSUSE, but in the end it will be up to you hardware and likes.

Have fun,
Joan in Reno

--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 4:56 AM

 

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

> >>The one above is for SBM, which has support for those CD drives, too.

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> Also, if you can do a frugal install to its hard drive in another computer with a Linux Live CD it might work.

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> I hope some of these might help you out...

> Joan in Reno

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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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