dual boot laptop
Sean Hogston
sean at hogston.net
Mon Nov 17 21:56:38 UTC 2003
With a little work I have it running on a DELL D800.
All I can say is that after you have seen linux running native at
1920x1200 on a wide-screen laptop you wont want to use anything
else!!!!
Sean
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:01, n_powell wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:14:03 -0000
> thus spake "Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk> :
>
> > Can someone suggest a laptop model and configuration
> > that can dual boot XP, Fedora Core or SuSE with reasonable
> > performance and least amount of problems.
>
> I have FC1 and XPpro on a Dell 5100. Both run great. I had to do
> nothing to get all the hardware working (except modem which I did't try
> as I have fat pipe) The broadcom NIC that was supported by the mnfgr
> with a src.rpm in RH9 is now auto detected and humming along when I ran
> first boot. Sound was there, touch pad was fine...everything really.
> Although I did have to manually select
> Display->Dell->$desired_resolution (1024) during install, if you don't
> mind 800x600 then you don't even need to do that.
>
> On XPpro though I needed to install drivers for all included
> components...(it came with XPhome)...The M$ kernel doesn't do more than
> basic hardware :)
>
>
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