On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Alain PORTAL alain.portal@free.fr wrote: <<snip>
I succeeded to download RHEL server 5.3 beta. If graphical installation succeeded, unfortunately, I >>was unable to restart > the laptop. ore info in the updated bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/%3Eshow_bug.cgi?id=477708#c5
This is an Enterprise distro and it does not support the latest and greatest hardware, especially on Laptops. It is possible that this will not run properly on your laptop. If not, you may want to consider a bleeding edge distro, like Fedora or Ubuntu, which will probably support a lot more hardware.Try running a "Live CD", with whatever distro you contemplate using, to see if it will run on your HW, before installing.
Here's a page in the CentOS Wiki for reference: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops