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Linux - Laptop and Netbook Having a problem installing or configuring Linux on your laptop? Need help running Linux on your netbook? This forum is for you. This forum is for any topics relating to Linux and either traditional laptops or netbooks (such as the Asus EEE PC, Everex CloudBook or MSI Wind).

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Old 03-26-2005, 03:21 PM   #1
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Very Old Laptop


I have a B.I.T laptop. B.I.T isn't even a business anymore. I have 3 hard drives, all are about 1G. When I boot up it says it's a 133 but when I run AIDA 32 it says its a 75Mhz. It has 16 megs of ram. It's running ms95 on all 3 hard drives, I want Linux on all of them. It cannot boot from a cd. I've tried DSL, it couldn't handle the GUI. What should I install?
 
Old 03-26-2005, 04:12 PM   #2
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what do U mean by

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I've tried DSL, it couldn't handle the GUI.
They send a generic X11 conf file, may be U didn't configured it for Ur own laptop
 
Old 03-26-2005, 06:13 PM   #3
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In that case, could someone give me a little help on how to configure it?
 
Old 03-26-2005, 10:24 PM   #4
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in your
/etc/X11/XF86config
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
one or the other, use 'vesa' under device
 
  


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