Toshiba Satellite a33-154m4 Installation issue

[Shuttle]

Apologies if this should have been posted in the Installation Help forum

Hello all.

I am having a problem, i want to install Fedora Core 2 (i already have the install discs) on my laptop.

Now unfortunately I did not have any say in the model or make of the laptop so I am stuck with this Canadian only model by Toshiba.

The problem is the installer doesn’t recognize the keyboard at first, I essentially have to mash the keyboard a few times to get it to finally recognize the input I am giving. Then once the media has been checked, Anaconda fails to recognize the touch pad and relegates me to a textmode only install (or I guess I could use tab and enter to get through Anaconda but....)

I am willing to do a text mode install but would have preferred to let Anaconda do its "magic" .

So I am wondering if anybody else has had this problem, and or has successfully installed Core 2 on a Satellite A33.

I have tried Knoppix 3.3 and it works fine so i am wondering if this might even be a Xorg vs Xfree86 related problem.

Thanks for any and all help in advance

Dennis (aka Shuttle)



edit: I forgot to mention that i tried installing RH9 as well; to no avail.

I really want Linux on this Laptop, sick of XP.... and i was hoping to put Fedora on it because I am familliar with RH.

[ilruffo]

Reporting same behaviour on Fedora Core 2 and Toshiba Satellite P10-832.

Same thing w/ debian too

[cletusbaird]

I have sucessfully installed Fedora Core 1,2 and Suse 9.2 on my daughters Toshiba Satellite desktop. Her satellite is an older Model. I blew away the propietary software from Toshiba by formatting drive with Win Xp home edition. After drive was clear used WIN XP to partition the drive.Using first partition for XP and leaving second partiton free. Put in Fedora Core Disk 1 and it allows itself to install on the second free partition automatically..it installs grub and you can choose what you want to run windows, or, linux on boot-up. Also, got her a external modem from actiontec that can be used in serail or usb mode. Mainly because her old internal modem was zapped in lightning storm and to make sure she had no connection issues with either OS. Fedora had much better selection of software than the single suse 9.2 cd I had.