Need help with Laptop hardware

[MkIII_Supra]

Bro's I have a fella here that has a bad *** Laptop but I can't seem to locate the data I need to ensure all of his hardware is supported. Here is what W2K pulls up from the hardware list (There is no documentation unfortunatly.... <sp> )

Disk Drive: IBM-DARA-212000
ATi Tech Inc. 3D Rage LT PRO AGP 2X (Pretty sure this is good to go!)
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-K11T
M$ PS/2 Mouse
Linksys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card
Crystal Sound Fusion tm.
General USB

He has W2K and holy crap is it slow! 747MHz PIII CPU and 256MB RAM! My 500 is faster! Anyhow he wants to load Linux in a dual boot, I am gonna help but I wanna make sure the hardware is supported first. time thing ya know! Drop a line and let me know... Oh and the reseller was Netlux. I haven't cracked the case... yet!

Thanks a bunch!!

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[Paul Weaver]

Video Card - Yep, Xfree 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 (http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status6.html#6)
DVD - no reason why not
Mouse - ditto
Netcard - I'd say yes, see http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9908.2/0725.html
Sound - redhat 7 at least has support (http://members.linuxstart.com/~solo9150/sound.html)
USB - no experience, depends o product I'd guess.


Apologies for spelling mistakes - I'm in a darkened room in the glow of my monitor, and its 4AM

[This message has been edited by Paul Weaver (edited 14 November 2000).]

[MkIII_Supra]

Thanks Paul! I'll give him the good news first thing tomorrow!

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[Shad]

Mac,

I have that video and ethernet on my notebook- works fine. I remember seeing the Crystal sound as a module in the 2.4 kernels.

The biggest problem is what you didnt tell- the modem, but you are probably already aware of the problems with that.

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[MkIII_Supra]

Proprietary modem, doesn't even work under win! He is going to replace the modem with one that is known to be supported. Thanks though!
But he is planning to use the NIC more than anything else.

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Not much to say? Then shut the hell up!
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[MkIII_Supra]

Bro's we got Linux-Mandrake 7.2 to load and boot from Grub off the HD, even had a dua boot with W2K, although he couldn't get w2k to load.... another story later.

Here is our dilema. He has to use a boot disk to boot the system. Some moron officer on his ship is banning all Linux machines as hacker tools and not allowed on board. So I need to configure a dual boot withuot a Linux bootloader, hence the boot floppy. Problem is none of the boot floppy's work. We tried RAWRITE.EXE, and the make a boot floppy utils as well as CLI and not one single boot floppy works! We get the following error:



boot:
Loading Linux............
Uncompressing Linux...

crc error

--System halted



This is the second error we get:


boot:
Loading Linux............
Uncompressing Linux...


invalid compressed format (err=1)



We have tried different floppies as well. Any ideas?

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The Dragon is swift and powerful. Beware his wrath...
Not much to say? Then shut the hell up!
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[Shad]

Well, you could try to dump a copy of the kernel directly to floppy through maxk bzdisk. That usually works for me. I know I have had some trouble trying to make a boot floppy withing 'Drake, but they allways seem to work if done during the actual install. Go figure.

It is possible to use other boot loaders like the NT boot loader, or write a batch script for loadlin.

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Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life

[ph34r]

dd if=/your/running/linux/kernel of=/dev/fd0

Makes a cheap kernel boot disk. You can also strip lilo off into a file that ntloader can access, then just edit boot.ini to add/remove entries that refer to it.