HP Pavilion LapTop, AMD Turion 64 cpu

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 April 2006 00:21, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> writes:
>> I just bought this thing, and have spent the evening doing a little
>> housecleaning and exploring using the deafult XP Home edition OS
>> thats on it, and trying to get used to the 'mouse' tablet as a
>> navigator tool and have a few questions.  And please excuse me but
>> this is the first 'windoze' machine I've ever bought.
>
>I just did the same thing with a different HP Turion-based laptop
>(Compaq v5000z).  The steps I took were:
>
>1) boot the stock os and run the defragmention tool.
>2) download the "gpartd" iso and burn onto cd/dvd.
>3) boot the gpartd dvd and reduce the first partition size to
>   something much lower.
>4) download and burn fc5 onto a dvd
>5) boot the fc5 dvd and have it use the "unused space" as the FC5
>   partition
>
Thanks, sounds like a decent plan to follow.

>So far I haven't reclaimed the D partition, but if push comes to shove
>   I just tack it on to the end of the linux partition.
>
>> If I wanted to put linux on this, should I use the i386 dvd of FC5 I
>> already have, or go get the AMD64 version?
>
>Personally I got an amd64 to do 64-bit address space things with.
>Running it in 32-bit mode seemed really wasteful.

Well, many of the linux apps aren't 64 bit clean yet, and I'd druther 
have the ability to run _anything_...

>> Thats enough questions for one message I think, and many thanks to
>> those who attempt to help a windows newbie get back to his favorite
>> OS. :-)
>
>I know very little about ms-windows. The only thing I found it useful
>for was to test the wireless card.  The broadcom-based card in my
>machine (bcm4318) still doesn't show up under FC5 but works fine on
>the stock os.

So does this one, but theres no other 802-11 stuff within reach I guess.  
I don't have any as the one long piece of cat5 I have would, if 
replaced by an 802-11 lashup, probably be a wee bit too long for stock 
antennas.  Or drown out the neighbors should they ever want to do that.

Thanks Wolfgang.

>-wolfgang
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