[Fwd: Re: Laptop install report]

[R S Gill]

Can someone please set the reply to reply to the list.

Gill

"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson 

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them" -- FDR 


"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- George Orwell 



Stephen Durham wrote:

>I think this was supposed to go to the list, not me.
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> Subject:
> Re: Laptop install report
> From:
> Ólafur Búi Ólafsson <olibuijr at olibuijr.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:44:24 +0000
> To:
> Stephen Durham <smd271 at psu.edu>
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> To:
> Stephen Durham <smd271 at psu.edu>
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> What kind of a laptop?
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> i have a HP nx7000 and EVERYTHING worked out of the box.
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> ./olibuijr
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> Stephen Durham wrote:
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>>That stinks, I have installed quite a few versions of linux on a Toshiba
>>Satellite that belongs to my girlfriend and this is the first one to
>>just work, very little tweaking (I had to add the key for the wireless)
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>>Not sure if you asked questions or not, but what where the problems that
>>you encountered?
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>>-Stephen Durham
>>On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 19:45 -0500, R S Gill wrote:
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>>>Tried to install on my HP ze4502us.
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>>>Miserable failure.
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>>>Nothing worked out of the box.
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>>>Gave up, installed Windoze XP
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>>>I want a linux distro that just worked. I don't want to have to keep 
>>>tweaking it, hoping that something will make it work. My time is valuable.
>>>
>>>Gill
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>
>>>"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them" -- FDR 
>>>
>>>
>>>"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- George Orwell 
>>>
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