Installing Linux/RedHat 6.0 on the Jetta Jetbook 7080

This is just a note about how I got Linux/RedHat 6.0 to boot on the Jetbook 7080 without hanging. All the other absurd and unnecessary problems with Linux installations are not addressed here. If you follow these instructions and RedHat 6.0 still won't boot then an installation that will work can be found here.
  1. Disable Advanced Power Management (APM) and security in the BIOS.
  2. Get a floppy boot image with no APM. You need to make this explicitly because the default APM setting in the installation, which cannot be changed as far as I know, includes just enough APM to screw you.
    1. Find a computer with RedHat 6.0 already on it.
    2. Read the Linux Kernel-HOWTO.
    3. % cd /usr/src/linux
    4. % make menuconfig
    5. General setup – Advanced Power Management BIOS support – disable – exit
    6. Compile the new kernel as per the Kernel-HOWTO. If you have to make a bootable floppy then
      % dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
  3. If it is not already there then install RedHat 6.0 on the notebook. If you find later that you have trouble running make then repeat the installation using a custom install and include all the packages.
  4. Reboot with the boot disk from step 2. This should work.
  5. Do step 2 on the notebook.
  6. Check /etc/lilo.conf to see where to put the new kernel. Then do something like
    % cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
  7. Run lilo just to be paranoid.
  8. Reboot. This should work.
  9. Make a new boot disk as per step 2.6.
  10. If necessary, make the modules for the new kernel.
    % make modules; make modules_install
26 August 1999