FreeDOS/Ubuntu on HP laptops?

[roach]

On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:24, Bret Busby wrote:
> Oh.
>
> Sorry - after all of that, if the computer itself is no longer
> available, my advice was not worth much at all.

Your advice was and is worth a lot more than you think. Other people will come 
along later and find you solution. The nx5000 has been discontinued locally, 
but is still available elsewhere.

> 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.

There's not a lot of local laptop dealers here and they don't allow you to 
play with their merchandise. Again, that's good idea though.

> 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.

I been trying that route too.

> Either of these methods, is a good start.

Thanks, for your help.

-- 
Robert "roach" Spencer
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa