Recently I got Dell inspiron 1501 notebook. I wanted it naked, meaning without OS, (but they gave GNU's FreeDOS with it) but they sent me it with free clothes ironed and kept aside, not worn on it. The courtesy ends there because DOS does not come installed. SO I was wondering where to start for that day.
So i tried installing Mandriva x86_64 on it. With all that "pci=nomsi" stuff and all. It did mini install which I did not like much... [Oh... I did not have 4 CD set for Mandriva 2007] because it did not configure my net correctly. So i said let me try Internet installation of SuSe 10.2.... Great, My experience was horror because had I gone ahead it would have reformatted my home partition to something else and cleaned all my 3++ years of work. It also gave cataloging error or something... So finally I said let me try Mandriva 2007 32 bit set with slightly corrupt(OpenOffice) 2nd CD. It installed and started working flawlessly... I am now a happy mandriva user (of last 3-4 years). Of-course I now have OOo-2.1.0 and looking forward to installing 2.2.0 Except modem which I have not tried everything seems to work beautifully. Sometime in future I may try installing x86_64 version of Mandriva, till then I am first learning to reuse Laptop (after a gap of 13 years). It was Mitac & Sun laptop then now it's Dell. This is very very fast compared to my IBM pentium desktop that I kept on using in a hope of retiring with it :-) There goes my early VR... Thanks for your patience with the wording of this message. Any flames and comments are welcome, with a caution that I may prefer to ignore them :-) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
