[PLUG] Linux Laptop Anyone?

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

Assuming you're still thinking about this, my recommendation is this:

*I wouldn't order too many "naked", as MS would call them.  I assume you can
do your minimum order, and ask for 10% with blank HDs?  Or is it a large
minimum order of naked machines?  Realistically, no more than 15% of the
laptop market is going to consist of: (Linux/BSD users + people wanting to
install an old boxed Win 98 + people with warez copies of XP)

*Pick a distro which is free, easy-to-use and major, like Mandrake, and
develop your standard install.  Image it to all of the naked drives so that:
A)You can verify that the machine is working, and
B)A customer can see his machine working before he takes it home

*If someone's advanced enough to want another distro, they're advanced
enough to have their own ideas on partitioning, so it's a waste of time to
worry about preinstalls for them.  They can see it works with Mandrake, so
let them handle installing Gentoo with seven partitions.

Good luck!

Greg Helledy

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