Fermi Linux Laptop Page

Laptops are not officially supported with Fermi Linux, but this page contains some pointers and collected wisdom to help you get your laptop up and running.

Boot Floppies. There are several different boot floppies.

• The normal boot floppy is for installing linux over a network on a standalone pc with an ethernet card. If your laptop has a built in ethernet adaptor, this may work for you.
• The pcmcia boot floppy and driver disk should work with most laptop ethernet cards, even some internal cards that the regular boot disk might miss. You should also use these boot floppies if you are installing from cdrom and the laptop doesn't want to boot from the cd. There is a list of included drivers here.
  • Here is RedHats instructions on making the floppies
  • Here is the pcmcia boot floppy
  • Here is the pcmcia driver floppy
• There is also an extra driver disk that goes with the normal boot floppy you can try if you aren't having luck finding the driver for your network card.

A good reference for linux on various models of laptops can be found at http://www.linux-laptop.net/.