red hat installation

[mickey_15]

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

Thanks,
mickey

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Alex Lavrov.]

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

Alex.

[Andrew Cowan]

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

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

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

[Andrew Cowan]

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.

[Mark Ellzey]

Mickey,

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

Regards,
Mark

[TwoProc]

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