Re: Gateway P-7805u Any success - install & using debian on this laptop? Bios upgrade procedure?

[Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>]

Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> a) AFAIR, Debian has a special mailing list fully deducated to
> laptops. That may be more useful.
>
> b) Try one of the Debian stable LiveCD, for example:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-500-i386-gnome-desktop.iso
>
> and that will give you almost exact look as if you work in already
> installed system. If you will face a problem, that will be almost
> exactly the same problem as if you face it with installed system. So,
> basically, you have a chance to resolve possible upcoming problems
> before you actually install the system.


The OP does not own the laptop in question yet.


Laura,

   You mentioning updating BIOS made me go take a look at how Lenovo
was doing it for my T-61..  The update was with a bootable CD I
downloaded from their site and everything went smoothly.. overall took
roughly about 5 minutes with the
download>burn>reboot>install>reboot>enjoying Debian..