Laptop of unheavenly unLinux

[desperance]

S'okay, I haven't fallen out of love with the LHP. When I fall in love, it is for ever.

But - thanks to quietspaces and carandol - I learned how to burn an ISO image, and I did that to make a live CD of OpenSuse 10.3, and the second time I did it - learning particularly from carandol's advice to do it slowly this time - it came out error-free; and even so, it won't boot the laptop as it ought. Laptop says it can't find the very CD-drive from which it is currently booting itself. Sigh.

Still, that may be a specific Suse problem, rather than something universally Sony. There are other varieties of Linux to try, it's just that Suse is the one I know. I shall lay in other live disks. Now that I know how to do it.

Oh, and I s'pose I should try booting the desktop from this Suse disk, just to check that the problem is not still in the burn; but later. I've only just turned this machine on.

In other news - well, actually I can't tell you my other news 'til it's formally announced, so my lips are unusually sealed. For now. Possess your souls in patience; it should be only a matter of hours.

Comments

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Aren't you supposed to be at the press show of Sweeney Todd?

Anyhow if you google linux vaio suse you get a number of hits, and I found this, is it relevant?

From the CDs, the installation proceeds smoothly, the only issue is that the boot prompt needs this short incantation appended to make the machine recognise the external (Sony) PCMCIA CD drive from where you are probably going to install the OS.

ide2=0x180,0x386 pci=conf2

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I love that it's referred to as an incantation.

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Patience is a virtue that has always escaped me, as you well know.

I await the news eagerly, because I bet it's fabulous!