RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 17:52, Frankie wrote: I have heard speak that Dell requires non standard settings with their nvidia laptops. Thats what I meant by hard. Gosh - sitting at a cli and typing ain't all that scary...ya ain't been drinking yet, have ya? (Being Father's Day and all...)

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-06 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 5:17 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 17:52, Frankie wrote: I have heard speak that Dell

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:58, Frankie wrote: Not at all, for most things I do with linux, the CLI is the default.. I want to start using linux for other stuff too, (like games) I have a 60 gig hard disk in this thing, I want to fill it up some. :-),,, and that sort of stuff rairly works

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-06 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 8:23 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:58, Frankie wrote: Not at all, for most things

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have just ordered the following laptop. Dell Inspiron 5150. 3.06 gig mobile Pentium 4. (The new intel replacement for laptops that used to have desktop processors.) 384MB DDR ram. 60gig Hard disk. 64Mb DDR GeforceFX Go 5200 DVD+RW combo drive. 15.1 XGA screen. 56k

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have just ordered the following laptop. Dell

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 14:16, Frankie wrote: You can't really do that over here, you buy them from Dell direct, and you get it shipped to you, there is no way to test the machine at all before getting in. You could always have gone to Hardly Normal and stuck a Knoppix CD into one of the

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:35:07 -0600 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:39:09 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, snip I have just ordered the following laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions or hints on loading linux on this thing? it comes with

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 2:55 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:48, Frankie wrote: hmmm, Well I have

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 21:01, Frankie wrote: And would the laptop come back with the report??? Nothing was ever mentioned about RETURNING the test equipment. cos if not, its a real expensive report :-) Technology's expensive, mate. (g) stephen kuhn == illawarra

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 7:18 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 21:01, Frankie wrote: And would the laptop come

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-03 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 05:34:53 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snips Just got a new Dell 1100 last week. Love it. I did off the 1/2 ton of strange Dell and MS software and loaded win2k first. Then I did the 9.1 install, resized the drive there and added a small fat32 partition to

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:39:09 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, snip I have just ordered the following laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions or hints on loading linux on this thing? it comes with XP home which I will want to resize (the partition) and dualboot with linux.. Am

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-02 Thread Frankie
findings. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 4:56 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:39, Frankie wrote: Hi

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-02 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Heather/Femme Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2003 6:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:39:09 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi