Re: [SLE] Linux on new Dell notebook computer

On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:17 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

I installed SuSE 9.2 on an inspiron 8600 with Windows already installed and the installation worked without any problem.

Do you know if your Dell came with a backup partition for reinstalling Windows? If so, any problems with retaining it? And (I know this is a hard question) would it still work after repartitioning to accommodate Linux? What's new for me in this is that so far all my machines have been generics that I've assembled myself, so I have no experience with Dell customizations. I don't want to lose anything useful that Dell puts on the machine. And by the way (I know that this is off-topic), what's the difference between a notebook and a laptop? Paul