RE: Cannot install Linux on laptop

["Geoffrey L. Brimhall" <brimhall@pobox.com>]

Try looking at comments that people have made on the following URL - it is one
of the best central stores of knowledge in getting linux to run on laptops:

http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html

Have you installed debian on other pcs, so you are familiar with the general
Debian installation process ?

Thanks !
Geoff Brimhall

On 01-Dec-00 Ignacio Garcia wrote:
> I have tried installing Linux on my ThinkPad 385 XD, but it hasn't
> worked.  When I first tried to install it, I got a message tha said A20
> gating failed.  So I changed the boot-up disk that I was using, and now
> it goes through the initial motions of loading the kernel, then it
> restarts my computer.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>         Cheers
> 
> --
> Ignacio Garcia-Nicoletti
> Network Administrator
> Grenville Christian College
> igarcia@grenvillecc.ca
> 
> 
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