Try Morphix. If the live cd works well on your laptop, it should also work when installed to hd.

got it issue though it says you passed an undefined mode number
 
press return to see video modes space to skip
 
again im clueless as to the graphic card
the laptop is a micron transport xpe
 
when i load it the screen just stays black the cd rom is 4x though

That would be a vid card issue for sure. Rats!! I'm not real up on vid cards for laptops but if you could find an Nvidia for it, it would probably work.

are you suggesting i switch the inside with a nvidia the inside is like a rats nest it is not fun taking apart and i dont know what card it is
 
but i also have
featherlight
debian
Gibraltar Firewall
Red hat
Mandrake
Beernix
Morphix
and slackware
 
you think any of these would work on my laptop
i just love cable
 
and the vid card gave some options im just not fast enough to write it down because then it goes straight into the linux kernel which, and then it is done i dont think i can use a live cd judging by both the processor and cd speed
 
i tried featherlight and left it on for three hours still hasnt boot

Gentoo.
 
There is nothing else.
 

Ive heard great things bout gentoo cept the fact of installing ill give it a try

I couldnt get gentoo before i had to go
 
but i did get debian on there
 
i installed the first cd but not the second because it took 20 minutes to load the second
 
anyway its text interface anyway to get to a gui
 
and linux found the video card to be vesa vga which is odd because under win2k pro it found it to be a svga becaue i had high resolution going.