[TCLUG] Linux on Laptop

Thu Aug 12 10:11:18 CDT 2004

My laptop is about 18 months old, fairly modern. Fedora Core 2 installed
just fine, but I used the Mandrake 9 installer to resize my NTFS partition
first.

Dave Sherman - Information Systems
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA
davesh at porous.com
POROUS MEDIA
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St. Paul, MN 55110
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-----Original Message-----
From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Olwe Melwasul
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:45 AM
To: TCLUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop

So, does anyone have experience with trying to install, say, Fedora 2 on 
a modern XP laptop? Someone said my Presario 2100 hogs the whole disk 
rather badly and I'd need a commercial disk partitioner to even get started.

Olwers

Jeffery Rasmussen wrote:

>How can they tell if you had Linux installed on the computer and then wiped
>it out and put XP on it?  In fact, as long as the hard drive isn't bad you
>could keep switching parts with the manufacturer without them knowing that
>you installed Linux.
>
>You might need to keep Windows around for running the stupid tests that
they
>will ask you to run.
>
>Jeff Rasmussen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lansing, Dan [mailto:Dan.Lansing at AndersenCorp.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:18 AM
>To: TCLUG Mailing List
>Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop
>
>
>One thing to keep in mind on this, I had a friend who purchased a compaq
>laptop from compusa and when he called compaq for support, they found
>out he wanted to repartition and install linux, they told him that if he
>removed the preinstalled OS or modified the partitions in anyway it
>would void his warrenty with compaq.
>Just an FYI
>Dan
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Olwe Melwasul
>Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:56 PM
>To: TCLUG Mailing List
>Subject: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop
>
>
>I have a new Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and I'd like to put Fedora 2 on
>
>it, maybe blow HomeXP totally off it. I got it at Best Buy and tried to 
>ask them about putting Linux on it. They punted, but mentioned how there
>
>might be a problem since maybe the BIOS was actually mixed in somehow 
>with the XP installation--but they weren't sure. In other words, put it 
>on at your own risk. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of 
>issue?
>
>Olwe
>
>
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