Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-01-31 Thread Tony Firshman
Malcolm Cadman wrote: Linux dual boot Umm ... that does seem anticlimatic ... :-) ... you mean the Linux installation just detects what space it has the potential to use and just installs itself there ? When I had a dual boot machine, it was all down to separate partitioning, and there

Re: [Ql-Users] Portable computers - experiences

2008-01-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
My own experiences with Laptops are as follows : Sony PCG-FR315S laptop, 512 MB RAM and a P4 processor running about 2.3 GHz. Can't remember when I got it, it was around 2003, no later than December 2003. Running Windows XP (Only for work) and Linux - for everything else. Mandrake of various

Re: [Ql-Users] SPAM-HIGH: Re: Portable computers - experiences

2008-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi Malcolm, Umm ... that does seem anticlimatic ... :-) ... you mean the Linux installation just detects what space it has the potential to use and just installs itself there ? Yes. I had read that it was recommended to make space on the disk under windows first, which as I said, is what