ubuntu on laptop

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:55:23 -0800 (PST), Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe
<wlv21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> i've had trouble getting Mandrake 10.1 to work on a Solo Gateway laptop.
> But am now considering wiping harddisk and installing ubuntu. has anyone
> installed ubuntu on this type of laptop and what are my chances of getting
> it to work? Or should i rather stick with debian testing?
> 

Is Debian testing working successfully, i.e. are these pcmcia errors
from Mandrake or Debian? If Debian testing is working for you, it's
very likely Ubuntu will too.

If not, then try the Live CD for Hoary (the next version of Ubuntu in
development) . The live CD and installer CD for Hoary uses the same
install software, so I'd try downloading the live CD at

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/array-4/ 

if that works without errors, wait about a month (Hoary release is in
April) and install that one.

-Eamonn