Subject: Thanks for GW Solo 5300 HOWTO
From: stephenthomas@rampantsolutions.com  Add to Contacts
Date: Jan 29 2001 6:08:58 AM -0800


Your collective notes were useful to me in getting RH 7.0 up and
running on my new laptop.

I have a few notes of my own.  I thought perhaps you might supplement
your existing pages with these instead of me posting yet another site.

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Gateway Solo 5300XL Installation Notes

BIOS Settings

Installed OS
ACPI
Large Disk Access
Other
Suspend
Save to RAM

The 10.0 GB hard disk has cylinders/heads/sectors of 1299/240/63.  The
Red Hat Linux 7.0 installation will prompt you for arguments to pass
the kernel at boot time.  I had to pass the argument

hd=1299,240,63

in order for the system to boot past the L in LILO.  This may be
because I chose the "Large Disk Access" setting of "Other".

Using the "Save to Disk" option in the Phoenix BIOS requires the
creation of a special partition.  Unfortunately, this partition
renders the disk unreadable by Partition Magic 5.0.

The X server from www.s3.com works well with XFree 4.0, however I did
have to modify the install script by commenting out the section

if [ ! -e /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup ]; then
echo You must have XFree86 installed.
exit
fi

Running Xconfigurator, choose "Unlisted Card" and pick the XF86_SVGA
server.  For the monitor settings, choose Generic LCD Display at 1024
x 768 from the menu and you won't have to configure the settings by
hand.

KDE 2.0 looks really sharp on this machine.

Stephen Thomas
stephenthomas@rampantsolutions.com