[plug] Suse 9.2 install on a Satelite A10. - Oh Joy

[Mark Bolton]

Suse 9.2 install on a Satelite A10.

1. Run Partition magic. I set the swapfile at 500meg.
I have 500meg RAM and apparently I dont even need a
swapfile because of this. I can always resize this if
this information proves correct but I will err on the
side of caution for the moment.

2. "missing operating system" on bootup even though a
bootable CD is in the drive.

3. Bios access is <Esc> <F1> really fast as soon as
the Toshiba splash screen appears on power-up.

4. set the CD as first in boot sequence

5. Installing.

KDE Runs Fine !! Bluetooth USB dongle ran straight out
of the box. A pleasing result after spending hours
getting it to run poorly under bluesoleil. Uploaded
scinceFriday podcast to my Nokia 6255 - this rocks !!

It wont detect my USB Flashstick. 

Wraps :

I am absolutely over the moon about this !! I was
ready for some really horrible learning curve vertigo
but it was a breeze. It is so clean and elegant in the
way the   OS is aranged and navigates. It reminds me
of when I dicovered Reverse Polish and the HP 11 C
back in the 80's. Linux really seems to have evolved
ito a handsome and fully fledged OS. I so look forward
to getting to know it a bit better.

Thanks to Peter and Harry for the encouragment.

Peter what sound editor would you suggest for single /
4 track editing for voiceovers? I currently use
Soundforge with Windows. 

Regards Mark

--- Peter Crystal <draoidh at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:37:37AM -0700, Mark
> Bolton wrote:
> > 
> > As a starter I would like to install Linux on my
> > Toshiba satellite A 10 laptop. Dual Boot? In spite
> of
> > my involvement in Industrial Electronics  (I have
> a
> > Diploma in Electronics ,old skool 80s, and done
> > machine language programing on a PDP 8? and 6800
> > uProcessor) I am not a power user.   I have
> installed
> > Linux on a few machines but never really got my
> teeth
> > into it. I am a bit of a bush mechanic and feel
> > frustrated that I haven't the smarts to "pop the
> hood
> > " and get in to fix a problem at a configuration
> level
> > when windows wizards don't work. 
> >
> 
> 
> This is a small article I wrote a little while ago
> documenting my 
> installation of Linux on an A10
> 
> 
>
http://members.iinet.net.au/~draoidh/computers/a10.html
> 
> Of course, I got it working a lot better than that
> document suggests.
> 
> However, more related articles can be found on :
> 
> 	http://tuxmobil.org/
> 
> But just to say the A10 takes to Linux quite well.
> Infact it is a rather
> good machine to run it off. Using Debian Sarge or
> Sid it'd be even
> easier. Especially now the ALSA modules (for sound)
> auto-detect so well.
> 
> Personally my current challenge is to get it working
> fine on my IBM T43.
> 95% of the way there. Managed to mangled my install
> a little so I can't
> compile new kernels. But that what you get playing
> with a mix of 
> Debian Unstable and Debian Testing ;)
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Peter Crystal 
> 


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