Introduction

Hi there!

In the document about my previous laptop, at http://people.debian.org/~wouter/laptop/, I say that employers rule, especially if they buy you laptops. That's even more true if you're self-employed, and have to buy a (tax-deductible, as it's a professionally required tool) laptop.

Which is what happened to me. I'm a self-employed IT professional now. And since I like laptops, I bought myself one. Not only is it a nice tool, it also comes in handy in case you're at a customer, trying to figure out what's going wrong.

Of course, a laptop is much more interesting if you're running the operating system on it which you know best, which, in my case, is Debian GNU/Linux. This text tries to document how to install and configure Debian GNU/Linux on a Fujitsu-Siemens C1020, although other distributions should work as well.

I'm running Linux 2.4.21, 2.4.22, and some kernels of the 2.6.0-test series at the moment. For the most part, there are no differences due to that fact; when there are, you'll know.

Wouter Verhelst 2004-01-09