Linux on an Avaratec 3500 Series laptop

[Paul King]

> Well if your HD is hdc and the CD is hda, you connected the connectors
> to the motherboard the wrong way.  Swap them, then either fix the fstab
> and bootloader of linux, or install it again.
> 

It's not that kind of laptop :-) It's still under warranty, so I am loathe to 
go ripping it open and swapping the connectors. I'm more of a PC guy. Laptops 
are a kind of gray area to me.

> The usb drive should probably be sda or uba if using a very new 2.6
> kernel with the new usb storage driver (no idea if it works yet).  It
> may or may not have partitions on it.

I wasn't aware of uba. I'll try it out. Although, I believe my kernel is one of 
the 2.4 versions.

Paul King

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