The Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000M Linux Mini-HOWTO

Alain Fauconnet
Public Health Research Labs
Paris, France
< af@biomath.jussieu.fr>

Contributions from:
Kenneth E. Harker < kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Uwe Seidler < Uwe_Seidler@lb.maus.de>
Tommy Rutledge < TommyRutledge@dlep1.itg.ti.com>
Theodore Ts'o < tytso@MIT.EDU>

Preliminary Revision 0.4 -- 24 March 1996

Abstract

This document describes installation and setup issues related to the Linux operating system and the Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000M notebook computers. The canonical version of this document is available via anonymous ftp at: ftp://ftp.biomath.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/TM4000M-mini-HOWTO.txt.Z

This document is also available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-tm4000m/

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Hardware Description
3. Installing the Slackware Distribution
1. General Installation
2. Installing from Floppies
3. Installing from a CD-ROM
4. Installing from the Network (NFS)
4. Configuring the Kernel
1. General Configuration
2. Sound Configuration
5. Configuring LILO
6. Configuring XFree86
7. Using PCMCIA Cards
8. Information on APM Power Management
9. Information for PPP Users

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HTML document last updated 26 March 1996