On Sunday 30 July 2006 10:29, John E. Perry wrote:

I have the impression that laptops need special treatment when installing systems and software.  If anyone could offer some advice, and some pointers to guidance, I'd appreciate it.

Not so much anymore. Most Distros figure out laptops pretty well these days, including SuSE. Any SuSE from 9.2 onwards will not have a problem. Neither will Ubuntu or Kbuntu. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 14:29 -0400, John E. Perry wrote:

I've just bought an hp Pavilion dv5234us laptop. I need to keep the installed Win XP for professional reasons, but I want to use suse as the main system. The laptop will be used for electronics CAD, (along with this desktop), documentation, and presentation at client sites.

The laptop has an Intel Core Duo processor -- two Pentium cores on the same chip. For this I should install the 32-bit smp kernel, right?

I have the impression that laptops need special treatment when installing systems and software. If anyone could offer some advice, and some pointers to guidance, I'd appreciate it.

First know your hardware and chipsets, do not listen to the salesmen they tend to be clueless. Second keep the XP to a minimum unless required for the job keep it to a single DVD lile 4.5 gig or 8.0 gig depending upon the burner. If its not a DVDRW get an external. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com