From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUnI5-0003z3-3T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:34:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9QFTUiD020888; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:29:30 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9QFEf04007733 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:14:42 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C641018034 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:14:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03625-06-4 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:14:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.123.100] (206-127-19-237.fwd.datafoundry.com [206.127.19.237]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7318031 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:14:39 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: laptop Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:16:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200510260854.37937.john@jolet.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510261016.17173.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: b684b770-e1ae-4129-b5be-0a309df3e370 X-Archives-Hash: 23273b20adddc7dfb400ddabf0b299e8 On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:04, James wrote: > John Jolet jolet.net> writes: > > I need to have my company order me a new laptop, but obviously, i'll be > > putting gentoo on it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a very small > > 'n' light laptop known to be pretty much a slam dunk to get gentoo on > > (with sound and wireless, etc)? > > It's easy to get a machine that has updated (newer revisions) of critical > chipsets, which may or maynot work with linux drivers. > It's best to get a 2005.1 install CD and try to boot the machine up, before > purchase. Often I go to a big store and test things out before purchase. That's a great idea. I'll take my knoppix cd. I've never had that fail to work on a strange pc. > > You may what to ensure that critical tools 'lspci' and 'lshw' are on the CD > before trotting off to the store. Also, if the critical hardware is > usb basd, make sure you have the appropriate discovery tools on the CD > or a companion CD. Folks at Best Buy (USA) are always curious to let > me experiment with their windoz offerings. I've snagged a few gentoo > recruits this way. They offer to purchase the CD before I leave, and are > quite astonished when it is gifted to them. They look at Gentoo, as > a treasure revealing deep secrets about the hardware they are selling. > However, more often than not the discounted machine I'm looking > at has weird hardware or something that I do not like. For instance > using hdparm to profile the hard drive performance is another good > idea. Bargain bozes often have substandard HD, or wireless chipssets > that are mostly disfunctional, even under winblowz. > > Warning, I'm not sure why, but some of these aforementioned diagnostic > tools are not part of the standard gentoo install CD.....Let me know if > you find an install CD that has lots of hardware diag tools as > part of the CD. I never seem to get around to building a customized > CD, just for this purpose, but surely someone else has created > a boot/diag/install version of 2005.* ???? > > HTH, > > James -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list