On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> mmm ..
>
> by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
> Dell laptop.
>
> Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
> it .. a poxy 32Gb hard disc means I'll probably run out of space soon
> too. (thinks .. this is considerably more powerful than my workstation ..
> hmmmm..)
*grin*
> the best bit is the video card .. 32mb ATI Mobility .. runs two monitors
> in 1400 * 1050 high colour .. and you can move between one and the other
> (just like you;ve been able to do on Macs since the years dot.) .. the
> 15in 1400*1050 screen is good too and seems to allow a decent viewing
> angle instead of the usual 5 degrees or so.
I have an ATI Mobility M1 in my laptop, too (Vaio z600tek). You'll be
glad to know that it's supported under XFree86. The bad news is that 3d
acceleration isn't supported (and I don't know whether it's likely to
be), so leave a winders partition lying around if you want to play
games.
> all I need to do now is partition magic it and install Linux ... does
> anyone know if fips.exe can resize partitons without hoovering the lot ??
> or shuold I get partition magic anyway ?
Fips should be able to. All it does is shrink your FAT partition (NTFS
need not apply). When looking at the partition table, also, don't
change the 4th partition towards the end of the disk, if there is one.
It's the suspend to disk partition (can't remember what id it is, sorry :-( )
-Dom