Linux Laptop & Notebook Installation Guides: Advent

Linux installation and configuration guides for laptops and notebooks made by Advent. Reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the resources section at the bottom, containing links to applications, tools, utilities, drivers, community portals, HOWTOs and FAQs. Do you have written an installation tutorial yourself? Please submit a new report.

Advent 5372DVD	RedHat 7.2, Mandriva (Mandrake) 8.0
Advent 5372DVD	Linux
Advent 5480	Slackware 7.1
Advent 5490	Linux
Advent 5490 (aka Gericom Webgine)	Novell/SuSE 7.1
Advent 5493	Novell/SuSE 7.1
Advent 6414	RedHat 7.0, Slackware 8.0
Advent 6418	Mandriva (Mandrake) 7.2
Advent 7003	Linux
Advent 7041 (aka Medion MD 40676)	Linux
Advent 7095IT	Ubuntu 7.04	Italian

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Resources

• Laptop Manufacturers: Linux Status Survey
• manufacturer site: Advent
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• How to do-it-yourself Advent laptop and notebook upgrading, repairing and modding.
• vendors which sell pre-installed Linux laptops, notebooks, PDAs or mobile phones

Original Equipment Manufacturer - OEM

If you are looking for drivers, software and service manuals for laptops and notebooks you may sometimes find similar models branded under a different name. Especially the FCC-ID can be helpful to detect the original manufacturer.

• OEM relations between manufacturers
• FCC ID: unknown