No experience with this laptop, but a couple of generic Mdk8 on laptop
things....
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
not mandrake specific, but a really good resource for gotchas, workarounds,
etc, by laptop model.
NTFS 5 read does work, at least on my desktop. (don't dare try write!)
Partition magic will resize NTFS partitions, and is generally a really nice
program to have for this sort of thing.
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Thanks, this is valuable, especially that there are no real impediments
> to getting it up and going. I am not a game player and this is to be a
> work machine - the graphics I have in mind are some scientific
> simulations so should not be too taxing!
>
> Thanks again all who responded,
> BillK
>
> On 19 Jul 2001 04:28:36 -0700, Al Baker wrote:
> > I had Mandrake 8 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (256 ram,
> > GForce2 chip, DVD, etc). You'll probably have a few
> > gotchas:
> > - Nvidia drivers (obviously), search mandrakeforum.com
> > for Nvidia, I wrote the instructions for setting it up
> > (specifically for the Go chip on this laptop)
> > - Sound (for some reason if you use headphones while
> > root you get loud static each time it reads the
> > drive). I'm not sure if this is a reiserFS bug or
> > maelstrom 3 bug or what, but always use a standard
> > user.
> > - Lots of problems with full screen games (I get that
> > little 1/2 size window instead of full screen), and a
> > lot of GL stuff doesn't work without tweaking.
> > - Haven't yet toyed with the DVD
> >
> > Aj
> > --- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 22:29, Bill Kenworthy
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000
> > > or 8000 laptop (which
> > > > ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has
> > > anyone installed mdk
> > > > 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It
> > > will have to live with
> > > > win2000, at least for awhile, are there any
> > > gotchas (such as can mdk
> > > > resize ntfs to make room for itself?)
> > > >
> > > > BillK
> > >
> > >
> > > Mandrake cannot resize ntfs t make room for itself.
> > > NTFS is proprietary and
> > > secret, and the new version witn Win2K cannot even
> > > be read.
> > >
> > > The 4000 has a severe BIOS bug that prevents the use
> > > of kernel 2.4 with RAM >
> > > 192M, and it is not AFAIK tested for the 8000.
> > > Another block is the hardware
> > > location of ACPI which thwarts those who would wish
> > > to use the enterprise
> > > kernel for greater than 1024M RAM.
> > >
> > > With large amounts of memory, the Dell Laptop does
> > > work with
> > > kernel-2.2.19-10mdk (available during install), so
> > > there are no real barriers
> > > to using the notebook, but it will seem a little
> > > cranky to get going that
> > > first time.
> > >
> > > Civileme
> > >
> >
> >
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