Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply. You know, I understood beforehand that Slack was
not for newbies, but that won't stop me from trying. :^) In any event,
I got it installed on my desktop without incident. I'm now in the
process of configuring X as I have two video cards and would like to
make use of both monitors as I do with XP. It's been doing a little
hoping around, but I attest that more to my limited knowledge.

I have to add, that I love the installation procedure and process in
Slack. No bullshit ads or other nonsense that you really don't need to
know or care about. Just install and go. The only thing I'd change (if
I could and knew how) would be to add some sort of package
identification while selecting your configuration. It seems that you
only get to see what each package is while it's being installed. I
think it would help it I knew what I was installing or selecting while
I was choosing. All in all, the installation was sweet and to the
point. Ala BSD. Bravo Slack!!!

Again, thanks for your reply,
Gabriel

P.S. I still have my ear to the ground. ;^)


On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 02:03:02 GMT, no spam <no-spam@sonic.net> wrote:

>In article <crfjuvcgni28pou25f04ft1ch8n4okefr0@4ax.com>, G7 wrote:
>> *Correction* Linux-on-Laptops = TuxMobil and Debian = Gentoo.
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>>
>> http://www.tuxmobil.org/hp.html
>>
>> Also: Specifications
>>
>> Pentium 4/2.3GHz
>> ALi M5229 IDE Controller
>> 512 DDR RAM
>> ATi Radeon IGP 345
>> Sony CDRW-DVD Combo Drive
>> WLAN = Broadcom 54g/802.11g
>> NatSemi PCI Fast Ethernet
>> Texas Instruments 1394 Host Controller
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:23:04 +0100, G7 <email@isp.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I recently purchased an HP Pavilion ze5517ea Notebook that I'd like to
>>>use to dual-boot between XP Pro and Slackware 9.1.
>>>
>>>I've attempted a couple of installations already and have had all go
>>>well up until the reboot. The system hangs on every reboot at 2
>>>particular places: the first being ehci_*** (I believe has something
>>>to do with USB) and the second having to do with DHCP addressing.
>>>
>>>At first I had a problem with LILO loading at all, but resolved that
>>>by increasing the size of the root directory...as Slack informed me
>>>that it couldn't write the information due to insufficient disk size.
>>>After that, all went well after which I rebooted only to be presented
>>>with my current situation.
>>>
>>>For the record, I have some general experience with installing Linux
>>>(read...RedHat, SuSE...), FreeBSD and OpenBSD, so the process is not
>>>that unfamiliar, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to conclude where
>>>my next step is outside of Googling and now this newsgroup.
>>>
>>>I read in a non-Slackware related newsgroup that one should check to
>>>see if Legacy USB support is enabled in the BIOS, so I'll take a look
>>>at that although I understand that it might not be applicable. I've
>>>read at Linux-on-Laptops that this series (ze5500) of laptops has been
>>>shown to run Mandrake 9.2 and Debian, but I sort of subscribe to the
>>>idea that distribution installation is second to kernel support, so
>>>I'm ASS-uming that if it's supported in a particular kernel, then the
>>>distribution is not really that important...except for a tweak here or
>>>there. If I'm mistaken, please help me out of my illusion.
>>>
>>>Lastly, let me say that the router I use to handle DHCP addressing has
>>>been pretty straight-forward in regards to all other installations
>>>I've performed, so I can't imagine that has anything to do with
>>>anything...but I could be wrong.
>>>
>>>I any event...
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance for your time, help, advice and support,
>>>
>>>Gabriel
>>
>
>Probably not related but it's worth a shot... I got Slack
>9.1 running on my ze5375us, whih has similar specs to yours.
>I noticed that I could power on and boot without a problem,
>but I could not REboot. If I powered off and on, everything
>was fine again. Looks like reboot is not doing a full
>power-on reset.
>
>Finally gave up (temporarily) on turning this beast into a
>linux box. I tried a 2.6.0 kernal, but still could not get
>ACPI suspend, or even DPMS screen blanking to go. I'll try
>again in awhile, after 2.6 nd ACPI have been aound a bit
>longer.
>
>-jeff