A good news story: Fedora on Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300...

[Alpay Erturkmen]

well same here,
besides the screen blanking issue i have recently posted (stemming from 
IBM BIOS which i will solve in a minute), everything went flawlessly in my 
ancient thinkpad 570, both in rh9 and fc1. rh9 even made me no hard times 
for the winmodem (lucent/agere), i just installed the rpm for it. however i
could not find the rpm for fc1, and downloaded the generic one which 
refused to compile. a friend of mine who is a linux guru changed something 
on
the code somewhere (i did not even asked him what it was), now it is 
running smoooooooothly...
fc1 on laptop rules :)... of course with xfce4 since kde and gnome is far 
too heavy for this pII-366 with 128mb of ram...

PS: thanks to charles e. Taylor and bob jones for their answers...

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 02:24:08 +1000, Brad <fuser at capstone.net.au> wrote:

> I have just purchased a used Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 notebook and with
> significant trepidation installed Win2K for my wife and then Fedora for 
> me,
> with a view to setting it up as dual-boot.
>
> As I didn't get the original installation CD with the notebook, I had to 
> find
> and download all of the Windows drivers to get everything working. This 
> was a
> lengthy but relatively simple process once I had found the software on 
> the
> WWW.
>
> I then started the Fedora install with 3 the CDs. Fedora detected 
> everything
> on the notebook, defaulted to 1024 x 768 with millions of colours, 
> installed
> Win2K in the grub boot screen and just... well... worked!
>
> I am SO impressed by this and it has been a great pleasure *finally* 
> getting a
> Linux notebook, and not having to use Windoze any more.
>
> Now I just have to get my wife onto Fedora and it will be a consummate
> victory.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Brad
>
>
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Alpay K. Erturkmen
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METU Informatics Institute M.Sc 2003
METU Industrial Engineering 2001

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