On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Diffuze wrote:
Hi, I have just received my new laptop. It's a Dell Inspiron 8200! Sexy and fast ofcourse BUT preinstalled with Windows XP.. Now.. I'm practically dying to put in a SuSE 8.0 boot disk in it, but I want some advice from the list first =) I'm quite sure I will void some kind of guarantee when I throw out XP and install linux instead.. Maybe I could dualboot? I have no clue! I don't know XP very well and I really just want to get rid of it, hehe.
I put 8.0 on Dell I8200 by first using partition magic (since SuSE doesn't know how to partition NTFS). The installation of linux was successful albeit not entirely trivial (there were a number of posts about this a while ago and searching on yahoos linux-dell-laptop list will yield much good material). -- Ragnar Steingrimsson | Department of Cognitive Sciences UC-Irvine, SSPA 3151 | Email: ragnar@uci.edu Irvine, CA 92697 | Small Green Men