On Friday 18 April 2008 08.47:47, David C. Rankin wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi everybody,
I searched HCL and HKL (german) and google for the HP Pavilion dv9760ez Notebook but couldn't find infos... I'd like to install openSuse 10.3
Anyone has running this model? Any problems?
The only part I found in HCL was the Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, that shuld work. But how about the rest?
Any infos? Would be great. Thanks!
Daniel
As a rule of thumb, HP is one of the most Linux friendly laptops going. I wouldn't think twice about shrinking the windows partition and installing openSuSE on it. If you want to fully preserve you windows hard disk and not take any chances of a hiccup, then just buy another 120G drive for your laptop ~$65 and do the install on that.
Thanks for your reply, David. I now buyed the laptop (it already contains 2 140G HDs), for the first (and hopefully last...) time in my life saw this terrible propaganda loaded Vista, shrinked it to the minimum and installed openSuse 10.3 without any problem. Just for the sound I had to search the opensuse.org site a bit, but finally it works now, too. Even Webcam worked atomatically - suddenly I saw myself on my screen :-) As soon as I am sure that everything of the rest works too I'll remove Vista completely and then have another partition free... regards Daniel b.t.w.: "installing" the pre-installed M$-malware and then defragmenting that partition took longer than the complete new openSuse install incl. formatting the disks... -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com/en/linux.html Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org