Re: [tlug] Installing Linux on an Asus laptop

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 6/7/07, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
> >   boot: knoppix screen=1600x1200 vsync=85 depth=24
>
> You may want to bail on that idea, which will have you spending a lot
> of time looking at BIOS memory test screens and boot message logs (or
> splash screens, if your particular distro hides the boot messages), and
> just boot up multiuser but with a console login. Then you can go through
> rounds of "edit X11 config, run it, watch it fail, read errors, repeat"
> until you get something that works well.

I was able to get the information I needed to install Linux on an NEC
laptop by using Knoppix and taking a video of the start-up and
shut-down screens - and then freeze-framing the video playback to
write down the parts that I needed to know.  (Standard digital camera
movie mode works fine for this.)

Lyle