[GLLUG] got my laptop today!

[Richard Houser]

If Mandriva supports it, you should have a good experience.  That distro 
has has good support for notebooks starting at around 2006.0 (on 2007.1 
now I think).  There is also a tool included at the beginning of the 
install that will let you resize your NTFS partition.  The tool tends to 
stay on the safe side, but I would nonetheless recommend making sure you 
have a backup of the system partition.  I would recommend you keep your 
Windows C drive fairly small (20-30G unless you think you will be 
installing a lot of windows software).

Julie Code wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>       I ended up getting my laptop from DHL today!!! I expected it to be 
> here on thursday and acutally was here more than a week earlier than 
> they originally said. I was wondering if someone could help me install a 
> linux distro on there this thursday?  I am planning on dual booting XP 
> and some linux distro.  Could anyone tell me a good distro, I like 
> Kubuntu but it seems to crash a little more than the others, so I think 
> I would like something like Kubuntu with the apt get install.  I know 
> there is some things you have to do to dual boot like partitioning and 
> so forth, so if anyone has the tools or maybe when I get home tonight 
> Caleb could help me.
> 
> Julie