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belrpr
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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: Toshiba Qosmio F10 |
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Hi,
I have a Toshiba Qosmio F10 laptop and I want to install linux on this laptop. Now my question is uite simple. Anyone already done this?
Want to share the kernelconfig. I haven't got the time to do a lot of testing because it is a laptop from work and it should be ready in 14 hours and I got 2 extra computers to help the compiling using distcc. |
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thorpe
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Ive a toshiba satillite, didn't really do too much special. Just enable acpi and the toshiba features. Later you might want to emerge fnfxd to get all these axtra buttons going.
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I would recommend a different approach if you need the laptop to be ready in 14 hours:
Install a minimal version of a different linux distribution first (maybe Kubuntu, or something else that tends to "just work"), and install that into a small, spare partition, maybe 5-10 gigs or so. once that is up, use the now installed system to install gentoo using the good, old, shell-based installation method. that way you'll have a laptop with office programs running in under 2 hours and you can take your time to install gentoo, and you can install gentoo in the background, while working.
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thorpe
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Why bother? I got Gentoo working on this laptop within about 2-3 hours. Then installed X and a few other essentials overnight.
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| thorpe wrote: | | Why bother? I got Gentoo working on this laptop within about 2-3 hours. Then installed X and a few other essentials overnight. |
because i assumed that since it was a laptop from work that it would be absolutely necessary to have the thing up.  since some people are apparently struggling for a few days to get gentoo running, and the OP doesn't have days to waste and fool around, it would seem a good idea to have a system that is definitely working and to then install gentoo from that in order to have a minimal downtime.
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