Laptops :: DSL works with Fujitsu Lifebook (C series)

Before my tale of success, every newbie in the room (me included) needs to repeat after me: “I will not burn an ISO image to CD as data. I will burn it as an image.” Again: “I will not burn an ISO image to CD as data. I will burn it as an image.” This is something I should have recalled from last time I did this, but I didn’t until after verifying the md5 sums twice, burning twice, and failing to install twice. So let’s do it once more: “I will not burn an ISO image to CD as data. I will burn it as an image.”

[For me, trying to use a data ISO always ended in that knoppix failure with the almost-non-existant shell.]

Okay. So back to my story: My Fujitsu Lifebook C-Series laptop (C-4120, to be exact) -- that boasts, with a fancy embossed metal plaque on the monitor, “designed especially for Windows 98" -- is now happily running Damn Small Linux instead. Everything seems to work, including floppy, cdrom, and the PCMCIA (at least, it recognized it), though I haven't actually tried a card yet, nor have I tried the USB ports.

This pretty much flies in the face of what Fujitsu told me aeons ago (when the damn thing crashed), that the "designed for Windows 98" meant it could only ever run Windows. They even told me there was "no way" to access the CD drive without Windows. I smelled BS then, and now I'm sure.

So kudos to DSL! You have revived my laptop! Now does anyone know where I can get a Linux penguin sticker to cover that offensive Windows plaque? ;-)

Glad to hear of your success. I also find those windows stickers when you buy a laptop annoying.

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