[conspire] Re: conspire Digest, Vol 25, Issue 14

[bruce coston]

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>    1. Toshiba laptop (Rick Moen)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:34:28 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: [conspire] Toshiba laptop
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
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> ----- Forwarded message from Bram Goodwin
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> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:56:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bram Goodwin <bram at bramfoto.com>
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>    I recently bought a Toshiba L14-104 laptop
> computer that uses an Intel
>    Celeron M-350 chip, and came with Windows XP
> installed;
>    I am interested in using a Linux operating
> software, possibly Suse
>    9.0, since I used it on another machine before; I
> have questions about
>    using certain software, and its ability to use
> WiFi;
>    I was thinking of coming to the BALUG meeting in
> Menlo Park on
>    saturday June 25;  Is it still being held?  Could
> I get help in
>    installing Linux at that time?
>    get back to me,
>    bram
>    --
>    bram goodwin
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> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen
> <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
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> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:33:40 -0700
> To: Bram Goodwin <bram at bramfoto.com>
> Cc: installers at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Re: Installation of Linux
> Reply-To: installers at linuxmafia.com
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> 
> Quoting Bram Goodwin (bram at bramfoto.com):
> 
> > I recently bought a Toshiba L14-104 laptop
> computer that uses an Intel
> > Celeron M-350 chip, and came with Windows XP
> installed;
> > I am interested in using a Linux operating
> software, possibly Suse
> > 9.0, since I used it on another machine before; I
> have questions about
> > using certain software, and its ability to use
> WiFi;
> > I was thinking of coming to the BALUG meeting in
> Menlo Park on
> > saturday June 25;  Is it still being held?  Could
> I get help in
> > installing Linux at that time?
> > get back to me,
> > bram
> 
> The CABAL meeting (not BALUG per se[1]) will indeed
> occur on Saturday, June
> 25, 4 pm through midnight at my and my wife's house
> in Menlo Park -- as
> shown on the meeting schedule at
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ .
> 
> We keep quite a large selection of Linux
> distributions on hand for use,
> including SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional Edition.  See:
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros  We
> would be glad to
> help you with that or any other Linux or BSD
> installation.
> 
> SUSE 9.0 would be a very bad idea at this late date
> unless you were to
> take extraordinary (and immediate) steps to bring it
> up to date, since
> it was released on October 24, 2003, and thus is 1
> 2/3 years old and
> probably no longer maintained.
> 
> Ideally, you should defragment your XP partition(s)
> before attending,
> e.g., by downloading and using DiskeeperLite.
> 
> You should also read any pages in the Linux on
> Laptops site's Toshiba
> section
> (http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html) about
> models
> similar to your L14-104.  By the way, I can find no
> Web pages whatsoever
> about such a model, so you may wish to double-check
> that.
> 
> For lack of ability to find your Toshiba model, I
> have not been able to
> assist you by identifying your wireless chipset. 
> FYI.
> 
> [1] You wrote to CABAL's link on BALUG's Web site.
> 
> 
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