Re: toshiba and lg laptops

[Philip Bellenoit <philipbellenoit@comcast.net>]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:20 -0800, Jacob wrote:
>         Hi. There is a common problem i encounter generally. The
>         problem is mainly about Toshiba laptops. When i try to install
>         Debian from sarge netinstall cd, i had to start installation
>         with kernel 2.4 
>         because with the 2.6 kernel mainly the installation system is
>         not able to detect hard disk.
        
>         The question is if i had used testing DVD's during the
>         installation, will i
>         have such problems?

Is it specific to Toshiba and LG laptops?  The sarge net installer did
not detect the harddrive or network adapters on my Compaq Presario
v6030us.  The etch beta 3 installer detected almost everything,
although, I still have to use ndiswrapper for my broadcom wireless card.