FreeDOS/Ubuntu on HP laptops?

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, roach wrote:

> 
> On Monday 17 October 2005 19:58, Bret Busby wrote:
> <...>
>> The HP NX5000 laptop is a relatively cheap laptop system, and, given the
>> ease of installation of Ubuntu 5.04, there should not be any justifiable
>> reason why a person on this list, cannot simply purchase an HP NX5000
>> and install Ubuntu 5.04 (or, even 5.10) on the laptop, without any
>> significant problems.
> <...>
>
> Significant Problems: HP NX5000 have been discontinued locally. :-(
>
> -- 
> Robert "roach" Spencer
> Pietermaritzburg
> South Africa
>
>

Oh.

Sorry - after all of that, if the computer itself is no longer 
available, my advice was not worth much at all.

Perhaps, what might be worth you doing, is what we did when we bought 
our first laptop (an unreplaceable beauty - an Acer 1711, with a 17" 
(NOT widescreen) screen and a P4 CPU) - take a live CD (I used Knoppix 
at the time, now we also have Gnoppix - the GNOME based one, and, Ubuntu 
5.04 has one), and boot up a prospective laptop with that, to check for 
hardware compatibility. Find a laptop that you like the specs and 
appearance of, and try it with a live CD, to find whether it is 
compatible.

Another possibility, is to do what I did before buying the NX5000 - 
search using google, on the keywords "linux" and a prospective laptop 
model number, to find whether anyone has reviewed the compatibility of a 
prospective laptop, with Linux.

Either of these methods, is a good start.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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