Good question, TechDeck. I had FITS trying to get any Linux distro to
install from a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive (a KME 20X) on a Toshiba 610 CT, but
finally got multiple versions of Caldera to work from the LISA install
diskettes. I also got Caldera running on a TI TravelMate 6050 laptop. The
Toshiba now has SUSE 7.0 Personal on it, and that installed pretty easily
(except I had a bad CD and the installation kept choking on LaTEX
repeatedly). Both laptops work pretty well for Linux, except the Toshiba
Satellite 610CT is only 640x480 screen resolution. You can make KDE work
that way, but configuring the desktop requires some 'blind faith' tabbing to
get to off-screen options at first. Both these laptops can be obtained on
E-Bay pretty cheaply these days.

Toshiba 610CT: Pentium 90, 640x480x32 bit display, 4.8 GB hard drive (LILO
booting to Win98/SUSE Linux 7.0 Personal), Pointstick mouse device, 40 MB
RAM, KDE desktop.

Travelmate 6050: Pentium 150, 800x600x30 bit display, 6 GB hard drive (LILO
booting to Win98/Caldera Linux 2.2), Pointstick mouse device, internal
CD-ROM drive, 64 MB RAM, KDE desktop.

Good luck, and keep us posted what you wind up getting/installing!

Ciao,

Richard



TechDeck wrote in message <25327N379@web2news.com>...
>Hi, I've been interested in Linux a lot lately, and I've been thinking
>about buying a laptop (I don't have enough room for another desktop) and
>installing linux on it. I'd like to install Redhat Linux on it, and I'd
>like to know if there are any laptops that run well with Redhat. I know
>the Redhat website has info on compatible computers, but many of them
>have slight problems, and I'm wondering if all have problems or if
>there's a "perfect" laptop. Also, which 802.11b wi-fi cards are
>supported by Redhat? Thanks in advance!
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