[conspire] HP OmniBook XE2: live CD challenge

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

This is a repeat of the previous message. Regardless of how one may feel
about top-posting vs. bottom-posting, I'm sure we could all agree that one
should not bottom-post to an already top-posted reply, and vice versa.
This message is intended to correct my having mistakenly just done so.

> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:57:43 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
>> ----- Forwarded message from Alexander Grundner <alexsfbay at yahoo.com> -----
>> 
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Alexander Grundner <alexsfbay at yahoo.com>
>> To: installers at linuxmafia.com
>> Subject: Notebook Details
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'll be participating in tomorrow's installfest and
>> I'm bring my laptop that I can't seem to be able to
>> install any distro or run a Live CD on. I've tried
>> Knoppix, Ubuntu, DSL, and nothing :( 
>> 
>> Laptop Details:
>> HP OminBook XE2
>> 333 Mhz Pentium II
>> 128 MB of RAM
>> 6GB hard drive
>> 
>> * I'd prefer getting the Live CD to work before I wipe
>> the hard drive for clean install.
>> 
>> See ya tomorrow!
>> 
>> -Alex
>> 
>> 
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>> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
>> 
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:56:56 -0700
>> To: Alexander Grundner <alexsfbay at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: Notebook Details
>> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>> 
>> Quoting Alexander Grundner (alexsfbay at yahoo.com):
>> 
>>> Hi!
>> 
>> Back at'cha.  ;->
>> 
>>> I'll be participating in tomorrow's installfest and
>>> I'm bring my laptop that I can't seem to be able to
>>> install any distro or run a Live CD on. I've tried
>>> Knoppix, Ubuntu, DSL, and nothing :( 
>>> 
>>> Laptop Details:
>>> HP OminBook XE2
>>> 333 Mhz Pentium II
>>> 128 MB of RAM
>>> 6GB hard drive
>>> 
>>> * I'd prefer getting the Live CD to work before I wipe
>>> the hard drive for clean install.
>>> 
>>> See ya tomorrow!
>> 
>> OK.  There are some tips on your unit, here:
>> http://www.linuxia.de/omnibook-xe2.en.html
>> 
>> I found that via the HP category on Linux on Laptops:
>> http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/hp.html
>> 
>> The author doesn't make it _seem_ all that challenging, but we'll have
>> to see what we find, tomorrow.  I have just about all available flavours
>> of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake" including the live CD
>> "desktop" images, plus I'll be downloading and burning DSL 3.0 and maybe
>> the current releases of Kanotix and MEPIS (all installable live CDs).
>> 
>> Is your problem (perhaps) just one of getting X11 (graphics) going?  If
>> so, it's probably solvable.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:24:33 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> I will be bringing the OmniBook XE3 again, as well as its close cousin,
> the Pavilion N5295. I predict that my experiences in trying to Linux those
> will prove invaluable to this effort.
>