When I first got the Toshiba Portege 3490CT from an auction at work, my main goal for the machine was to install Linux on it. Searching the web for instructions didn’t give me enough details since I’ve never used Linux in the past. Since most of the posts in forums are not getting anywhere, I decided to post my quest on a blog (one of the reasons I started this blog) to see if anyone would walk me through it by posting comments.