Sony Vaio laptop
I had asked for some advice last week about dealing with pre-installed Windows XP on a laptop I was considering purchasing. If anyone is curious, I had NO problems. The Vaio FX340 came with Windows XP on the C: drive (approximately 6.5 gig) and a virtually empty D: drive formatted NTFS. I just eliminated D: and formatted for my ext3 and swap partitions in the empty space. RH 7.2 installed flawlessy and on intial boot, X, sound, and everything else I've tried thus far just worked. I'm planning on adding an additional 256M or RAM (about US$60) to the 128 on board. That should have it running real comfortably ;o) Thanks for the responses I did get. they were helpful in making my decision. Mike -- "One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God." -- J. Gustav White ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sony Vaio laptop
Excellent news Mike. Good to know! Stayler On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:54:09 -0500, Michael Scottaline wrote: >I had asked for some advice last week about dealing with pre-installed >Windows XP on a laptop I was considering purchasing. If anyone is >curious, I had NO problems. The Vaio FX340 came with Windows XP on the C: >drive (approximately 6.5 gig) and a virtually empty D: drive formatted >NTFS. I just eliminated D: and formatted for my ext3 and swap partitions >in the empty space. RH 7.2 installed flawlessy and on intial boot, X, >sound, and everything else I've tried thus far just worked. I'm planning >on adding an additional 256M or RAM (about US$60) to the 128 on board. >That should have it running real comfortably ;o) > Thanks for the responses I did get. they were helpful in making my >decision. > Mike ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sony Vaio laptop
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:08:43 -0800 (PDT) "stayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent news Mike. > > Good to know! > > Stayler == Thanks Shawn, Heck, it even set up my CD burner as an ide-scsi device. I had even forgotten that the darn thing came with a DVD/CR-W (instead of an ordinary CD-ROM) and couldn't figure out, at first, why it was setting up the ide-scsi routine on installation. Whew! Very hands-off Take Good Care, Mike -- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: Sony Vaio laptop
Mike, et al, I've had pretty good luck with the two Sony Vaios I use here at work. They seem to run Linux pretty well, and have been reliable, too. However, anyone looking to purchase one should know about Sony's repair policy. You must ship the laptop to a location (they will give you the address, but not a phone number) in California where *all* US laptops with the Sony label on them are repaired. Period. End of sentence. No time or cost estimates are given. If you have anything valuable or classified on the hard drive, too bad. You better copy it or remove it. I managed to drop a phone (old style and heavy) onto my keyboard and break a keycap. The Sony party line was that I had to ship them the computer to replace a keycap. Government instructions for removal of classified data from a computer hard drive end with grinding the disk material to powder and burning the residue, so erasing the disk wasn't an option. Nor was doing without the computer for an unspecified amount of time while we were supposed to be using it for testing. Significant intervention from Micro Warehouse (where I bought it and many other things as a government credit card holder) got them to send me a new keyboard, but it took several months and something akin to an act of congress to convince Sony that this should be done. Now, I've had no other problems with either Vaio, and this one was of my own making. So they are pretty reliable. But be aware that repairs can be a problem. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) +--+ | Thomas A. Condonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Computer Engineer phone: (360) 315-7609| | Barbershop Bass SingerSailor and Singer of Chanties | | Left Handed and In My Right Mind | +--+ /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
