Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 4000 and Mandrake (or other distros) - opinions?
From: Ali (ali@wamnet.com)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 21:54:06 GMT+1
Mat Riain <mriain@eightinonepet.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 4000, and I would like to install Linux
> alongside the Windows O/S that it came with. I've used Mandrake at home
> with great success - does anyone have any experience putting Linux on a Dell
> laptop?
I got RH and Mandrake going on my 4000. Everything but sound worked right
away. A bit of work on the Ethernet under Mandrake but nothing big...
Of course the modem (mini-PCI) if you got it doesn't work... err...
OTherwise, leave that odd OS/2 partition and suspect-to-disk will be ok
as well.. -Ali
-- "I, the above, promise to use as many global variables, magic numbers, gotos, and longjumps as I can, in order to make my application code appear more magical." -- Justin Banks
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