Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300

Hi,
Got this elderly laptop.
P111 700 Mhz
5.6Gb hard drive.
About 300Mb RAM.

It is currently running Win 2000 rather well, but I've grown to love Ubuntu recently.
I'd like to try a Linux distro on this laptop. I've a feeling that duel booting Xubuntu would probably clog up too much hard drive space, but DSL might be better.
One thing that worried me with Xubuntu was the long winded hack that is needed to fix the fan cooling problem.
Would this be easier to solve with DSL?

Basically, I'd like to use this laptop from time to time in the living room for web browsing.........so I'll also need some kind of wireless card that wil work.
Am I asking too much?

Thanks,
Phil

If you have a cd drive, the best thing to do is burn a cd, boot it and try and see what happens

Done that........and it works.....sort of perfectly......although I can't get a net connection on my Belkin USB doohdad

Should I be using a different brand of doohdad?
Thanks,
Phil

Assuming that you cannot get a net connection because dsl has not recognised your doohdad, I guess the next move would be to get details using the command "lsusb" from a terminal window and then use google to see if there is a native linux driver for it.

But......If I'm running from a CD, I'd have to get that driver and put it onto a floppy? And next time I run DSL......I'd have to do it again? Am I thinking along the right lines here?

Thanks,
Phil

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