Stormi,
> Message: 4
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:13:37 -0700
From: storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 5150 and Distro?
>>>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:16 -0700, Bill M. wrote:
>>>
>>> Any thoughts from the list on good distros for laptop? Any experience
>>> with distros that seem to be best for laptops? Thanks in advance for any
>>> and all help/suggestions.
>>>
>>> -*-Bill
>
>
> I currently am running MDK 10.1 ( DVD version) dual booting with XP home
> on NTFS. It's a fresh install since the harddrive just bailed out and I
> had to replace it. (Noisiest failure I've ever heard!) It knew that my
> laptop was a toshiba, and enabled the toshiba controls and the acpi
> stuff so all my devices would work. it found and configured my firewire
> port and the nvidia driver works fine as long as you install the kernel
> source first if you're going to download the nvidia driver from nvidia's
> site. If you do an "expert" install, you can pick blackbox, WM, or any
> number of desktops. ( Hit "F1" instead of enter when starting the
> install for the expert option.) I haven't tried the wireless card yet,
> but I'm sure it won't be a big issue.
>
> HTH
> stormi
Thanks so much for the great overview of your dual-boot set up. Like I
mentioned in my original post, I used Mandrake quite a bit -- it was my
introduction to Linux (ver. 7.3), and was fairly satisfied with it,
slightly annoyed with MDK's differences of tool locations, minor
inconsistencies with other distro, but man... MDK's hardware recognition
and configuration tools were always top-notch! I have a magazine cover
DVD version of the "community" release -- may have to explore that.
The wireless card is a biggie, but should be attainable with NDIS
Wrapper or the commercial version (forget its' name...)
Again, thanks for the great feedback!
-*-Bill
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