[GLLUG] Laptop and RedHat
Matt Graham
danceswithcrows at usa.net
Fri Jul 15 09:36:18 EDT 2005
On Friday 15 July 2005 08:44, after a long battle with technology, Alec
Warner wrote:
> Dave Rogers wrote:
> > I'm considering buying a laptop and setting it up as a dual boot
> > for XP Pro and RedHat. I'm pretty green when it comes to HW issues
> > and installing RedHat.
You Mean "Fedora Core", right? Redhat 9 is antiquated, and Redhat
Enterprise N is overkill.
> > When I buy the system and it has one big partition
> > for XP, will RedHat allow me to partition off a chunk for it during
> > installation or do I need to use some other program to carve out a
> > partition prior to installing Redhat?
> You should be able to use Parted to do this;
ITYM "ntfsresize" and some sort of partitioning tool. I believe most
newbie-oriented distros put good pointy-clicky frontends in front of
this process if they detect a Windows partition that covers the whole
disk.
> although honestly I'd wipe it and repartition the drive, then
> reinstall both.
This can be overkill, and can waste a lot of time.
> > I'm considering this Compaq laptop:
I've never trusted HPCompaq, but they apparently have a few decent
models of laptop out there.
> > X6000 Series, P4/520/2.8GHz, 17" WSXGA+ 1680x1050,
> > 512MB DDR2 400, DVD +/-RW/R & CD-RW
> > 64MB ATI X300, 54g wireless
> Wifi drives are often an issue. Do you have experience with NDIS
> wrappers? Is the Wifi in that laptop supported natively by the
> kernel? these are good things to check out.
What Alec said about 802.11n.
You should go to http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and possibly
http://tuxmobil.org/ and look for installation reports on the
make+model of laptop you will be using. Also, using 3D acceleration on
ATi graphics chipsets is kind of a PITA compared to using 3D
acceleration on nVidia graphics chipsets. Both require evil
binary-only kernel modules and X servers, but nVidia's evil kernel
modules are less troublesome to install. Usually.
--
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