On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you > could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a > good resolution.
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM "live" system? > Although I am not a fan of Dell's for the most part they put out a decent > product ... If you buy a Dell, I *strongly* recommend the "Gold Tech Support" package, or whatever they're calling it these days. The difference is night and day. With it, I'm a happy Dell customer. Without it, I wouldn't touch their stuff. > ... unlike Gateway. At %DAYJOB%, we're a former Gateway customer. They are slowly evaporating. They spun off, and then liquidated, their business division. Their consumer division is now showing signs of stress as well. I don't expect them to live through the current economic mess. > You are going to run into this problem in most systems today. Sadly true. Free Software was finally gaining serious traction thanks to Linux, and now it's being challenged by hardware that's closed-off for no good reason at all. :-( -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/