[CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

Dag Wieers dag at centos.org
Tue Dec 4 02:16:26 UTC 2007


On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Alfredo Perez wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:40PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Johnny Tan wrote:
> > > Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:
> > > > I'm actually using CentOS on 2 laptops, and I have really few issues:
> > > > on the newer one (a Lenovo) the only thing that doesn't work is sound (I
> > > > know the newer alsa drivers would work, but I'm too lazy to install them:
> > > > I'll wait for the updates) but it isn't a big deal: I'm using it for work,
> > > > and I don't need sound
> > >
> > > Or, if we create a page on there, should multiple entries of the same laptop
> > > model go on the same line somehow?
> >
> > What I prefer is to have one single page per Laptop model. And a different
> > section for each CentOS version (starting with the latest, CentOS-5
> > first).
> >
> > If people have their own blog articles or webpages about their laptop
> > model, I would like to have this information reside inside of that page
> > (now they are on the index page temporarily).
> >
> > Sadly, for now, you have to request access to be allowed to create or edit
> > these pages. I hope in the future we will have a more liberal view wrt.
> > the wiki.
> >
> > PS I created this structure for your X60 for now, I plan to add my own
> > laptops soon (but it does not include a X60). If you can add your
> > information to this existing page, I am sure this is very valuable for
> > another X60 owner.
>
> Last weekend I tried to install Centos 5.0 into my old Toshiba 4200.
> No luck. The installation process stop in different places.
>
> Any recommendations?

Do you have more information ? Where exactly did it stop ? What was in the
log ? Maybe try again with CentOS 5.1 ?


> I tried Startcom which is also redhat based and the installation
> process ended successfully.

Not sure if StartCom is RHEL. They have a release called 5.0.6, but no
clue to what that matches. What version of StartCom did you use ?


> I will keep trying to see if I can get my laptop to run Centos.
> I will also share my findings when trying to get my laptop to connect
> to the internet using bcm43xx using fwcutter, if that is ok you guys?

Great.

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