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laptop..



I've had great luck with my HP 4100.  Also the HP XE2 (whitch has the
cdrom and floppy all in one) looks like it'll work fine as well.  On both
machines I've been able to get them to boot off of El Tortito volumes,
even though the XE2 has a DVD drive in it.

Hope that helps.

Tim.

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ed Miner wrote:

> hi.
> 
> i am in the market for a laptop, and would like to run linux as my
> primary system on the laptop alongside windows 98. can anyone recommend
> a laptop for which i will not have a lot of problems trying to get the
> audio/cdrom/dvd to work? i am currently thinking about sony vaio's
> however, i would like to hear back whether people have gotten linux to
> work on those? otherwise what systems do you recommend? dell/compaq/ibm?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks in advance.
> ed
> 
> 
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