I just bought a toshiba te2000 laptop.If anyone can use it I will go through the steps to get it working on gentoo.
Laptop Specs: Intel Pentium III 1.0GHz Processor 14.1" TFT active matrix - 24-bit (16.7M colors) Trident CyberBlade XP - 16 MB Video Card 256 MB 100 MHz SDRAM 20.0 Gig HDD DVD-CDRW Optical Drive USB External Floppy Drive Internal ITU V.90, K56 Flex Modem 10-100 Ethernet (intel eepro100 or e100) 802.11b Wireless Network (Orinoco Wireless PC Card Gold) 1 Type III Cardbus / 2 Type I/II PCMCIA Slots 1 Microphone Input - Mini-Phone Mono 3.5 mm 1 15 pin VGA D-Sub (HD-15) 1 Parallel - IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP) - 25 pin D-Sub (DB-25) 1 Headphones Output - Mini-Phone Stereo 3.5 mm 1 Keyboard/mouse - PS/2 style 1 Infrared - IrDA 2 USB - Serial Bus port (v1.1) 1 Modem - Phone Line - RJ-11 1 Audio - Line-In - Mini-Phone Stereo 3.5 mm 1 Serial - RS-232 - 9 pin D-Sub (DB-9) AC Adapter
The install is pretty straight forward. I follow the guide Handbook
I left windows98se on it just in case I have to update the bios or something. I used partition commander to shrink the vfat partition to 5gb and left the rest as free space. Then used fdisk to create the 3 partitions for gentoo.
Windows had to go, installed Gentoo to the entire drive after installing Slackware for a few weeks to get use to the hardware ect.
In the links at the top I will include all important config files and lsmod lspci etc.
