Please can anyone say me if it's possible to install linux on this machine? Thank you.

Linux works on Toshiba

They have many proprietary features, so not everything will work

You will be able to get wireless, video, lan, etc. working

You may need to boot with acpi=off

Hard Drive is probably SATA, but most distros recognize this

Try Mepis -- it recognizes hardware well

Mike

The problem is:

The laptop came with a 80Gb hd with winxp installed and some toshiba software added. So, I downloaded from ftp://ftp.es.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/iso-cd
the file debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso .

Then I burned it, rebooted and puted cd as first boot device. The installation went well till the part of doing partitions, where I found this error:

(Sorry for my english level, I'm spanish and try to do my best):

"[!!]Partitioning of disks
There are no means partitionables

Couldn't find any means that can be partitionable. Please, make sure that has been connected a hard drive on this machine"

So I read more, and thought that I necessary had to make partitions from windows, as I couldn't make them from the installation process. Then I got Partition Magic and divided my hd in 15gb for winxp with ntfs, 63 or so for linux with ext3, and around 1gb for swap partition, ext3 too.

Then I rebooted, but in the same point of the installation I got the same error. So I thought that the partition was made with no function at all as I couldn't install linux on it. Then I decided to merge the partitions again in one and now I'm as if I was on the first step (with a just one partition for winx).

What more must I do in order to install linux both with win in the same partition? Is the problem the model of the laptop?

Thank you for your patience.

I suggest trying another distro first

It's likely Debian is not recognizing your SATA drive properly

Try downloading Mepis http://www.mepis.org

Mike

Try SuSE, Mandriva, or even Fedora.
They are more user friendly tha Debian, which is very professional, but they are still a professional distros. If the laptop is newer date, find a newer version of those distros. they come in CD and DVD versions of the net. You can also download, if you have a posibility. Try them, if you have problems, find me on my mail, I'll be glad to help.
Try the newest distro versions. SuSe 10, Mandriva 2006, and Fedora 4

I installed Mandriva 2006 on this laptop.

I've three minor problem:

1) At shutdown I've an error about "exiting Laptop mode" (no idea what it means)

2) Sometimes kded process start using 98% of CPU time apparently doing nothing

3) Suspend modes do not work