topic Re: red hat installation in Operating System - Linux

red hat installation

mickey_15 — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:06:30 GMT

Can we install Red Hat 9.0 Linux on a HP Omnibook 6000?

Thanks,
mickey

Re: red hat installation

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:27:51 GMT

That is a tricky proposition.

The answer is probably yes, though you should do research so you know who provided the video card/chipset and the modem.

HP laptops are relatively famous for giving Linux installation/admins trouble getting started.

Before you start, make sure you do your homework and have linux drivers at the ready.

SEP

Re: red hat installation

Alex Lavrov. — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:46:23 GMT

I'll suggest to install something newer than RH9, something like Fedora Core 4 ...

Alex.

Re: red hat installation

Andrew Cowan — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:28:59 GMT

Suse usually recognises far more devices than Redhat and so is normally a much better bet for laptops.

Re: red hat installation

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:52:35 GMT

I'm not recommend Suse.
FC 4 is ok if you not going to $$ for RH ES 4.

Re: red hat installation

Andrew Cowan — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:58:32 GMT

Suse has also gone open-source, and there is now a no-cost version available from www.opensuse.org.

I do prefer to use Redhat as I am more familiar with the commands, and there are more things available in the US, however I can almost gaurantee that you will run into hardware issues with a Compaq/HP laptop. I have been running Suse for a long time, first on my old Pavillion N5430, and now on my NV400 widescreen, and Suse supports everything except the Winmodem.

On the wireless front 9.3 also supports Windows 2000/XP AES encryption rather than just WEP as Redhat does.

Re: red hat installation

Mark Ellzey — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:00:36 GMT

Mickey,

I have a HP Omnibook 6000 that I just installed RH 9 on last week. Works fine.

Regards,
Mark

Re: red hat installation

TwoProc — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:18:55 GMT

I've got RH 3.x Workstation installed/working on my Omnibook w/o any problems.