Re: installing fedora 8 in compaq presario v3425au

2008-03-31 Thread rimzy
Hi I have a laptop (compaq Presario v3425au),vista preloaded , with the following configurations. Processor- AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-53 (1.7 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache) Chipset NVIDIA(R) C51M and MCP51 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Display 14.1-inch WXGA High-Definition**

Re: installing fedora 8 in compaq presario v3425au

2008-03-31 Thread Miguel Ángel Pérez
Hi rimzy, Usually people first installs and then worries about what doesn't works out of the box :p, because this way you can execute some tests or find required information to configure things. A linux distro is not like windows, the kernel is built with a lot of driver modules so hopefully you

Re: installing fedora 8 in compaq presario v3425au

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bredesen
You could also burn a Live CD/DVD and run from that. It'll give you a good idea of what works out of the box. http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora -Chris rimzy wrote: Hi I have a laptop (compaq Presario v3425au),vista preloaded , with the following configurations. Processor- AMD

Re: installing fedora 8 in compaq presario v3425au

2008-03-31 Thread milto
Did you searched here: (http://tuxmobil.org/)? rimzy wrote: Hi I have a laptop (compaq Presario v3425au),vista preloaded , with the following configurations. Processor- AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-53 (1.7 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache) Chipset NVIDIA® C51M and MCP51 Graphics

Re: installing fedora 8 in compaq presario v3425au

2008-03-31 Thread Adalbert Prokop
rimzy schrieb am Montag, 31. März 2008: Hello rimzy! Will fedora 8 install all the drivers for all the devices in my laptop ? if not please tell me what all drivers / plugins should i download extra ? I am asking you in advance so that i want to make sure that i can install fedora without