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| Thread ID: 52925 | 2005-01-03 00:40:00 | My Linux Laptop Adventures | rmcb (164) | Press F1 |
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| 310025 | 2005-01-03 00:40:00 | My xmass pressie to myself, a Acer laptop from dse, Extensa 2303LC, on sale for $1280.00. Celeron m 340, 256mb ram, 40 gig hdd, 15¨lcd. Booted my SimplyMepis live cd, deleted all partitions with qtparted including the hidden 3gig restore one. Created 1x 10 gig for xp, 1x512mb swap and 2 Linux partitions of around 14.5 gig each. My first attempt at a Linux install was SimplyMepis, no sound and no modem. Next up was Ubuntu, sound but no modem, running scanModem was a bit vague so a bit of help from :discuss@linmodems.org got me an answer, a connexant modem. A fresh install of Mandrake 10 and a Linuxant modem driver and I am connected, Mandrake has correctly set up my sound, network, & X setup. Gonna try Fedora Core 3 from my next APC magazine. Overall a neat laptop at a good price. |
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