Hey,
I got a ~1year old laptop named PB easynote R4 and I said to myself.. to hell with windoze, it's lunix time! \o/

so I dled fc5, burned it on a dvd, put it in the dvd drive and I got an error:
"no such image: linux" (iirc)
I took the dvd and put it in another laptop, but there I didn't the same error, but it just didn't want to boot from dvd

so okay.. I thought that perhaps the problem was with the dvd being badly burned(pun?) so I next tried it on a desktop pc.. and what do you know, it worked superbly!

I searched the interbutts for _ANY_ kind of laptop related installation tutorial/guide/doc, but on all of the sites they just said:"i put the cd in, installed and now i'm installing Xwin" grrr!

I need your help, thank you in advance!

Try with CD ISO I know that is nasty to download 5 instead of one DVD. But even if it
works on a Desktop thats still not a must! The other notebook was this also a R4?
Download only the 1st CD ISO of FC5 and test this.
But also you could try "linux noprobe"

i downloaded the CD ISO version, and it gives me the exact same problem.
the other was some HP laptop

"linux noprobe" returns the same msg :/

nvm, it seems i'll be going freebsd on this laptop

No there is something different going on but
Its okay to use something else of course as log as it is not Windows

:-)

If FreeBSD doesn't pan out, you can try checking out this website (assuming you have access to a decent Internet connection) for instructions on installing without a CD or DVD:

http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

This document is tuned to "switching from Windows from something else", but it's not bad. You basically grab the vmlinuz/initrd.img files that you need and do an install directly from the mirror. Pretty slick, especially once you consider how many times anybody has ever needed all 5 CDs to install Fedora.

I suspect that you did not burn the DVD as an ISO image - you cannot just copy or drag-and-drop the image file to the DVD but rather it must be burned as an ISO Image. How exactly did you burn it, and what burner app were you using?

If you're having problems burning the DVD iso images (I have had similar problems in the past) just head to your local bookstore and grab a Linux magzine for a couple of bucks. A lot of the time they'll include DVDs with the latest distributions of Linux ready to install. Just a thought...