laptop xp and linux dual boot
Bought a laptop yesterday! :)
Of course I want dual boot on it. I have used linux a few years (fedora2), and thinking about what dist is best suited on a laptop... I have a router att home; netgear wgr614 and wireless lan on the laptop. The connection works fine in windows XP. What dist do you think is best suited for this? And how should I create the dual boot? -XP is preinstalled on the laptop, so I think partition magic is one way to handle the problem. I have never used partition magic before, is there anything to think of when using it? I would be very happy if someone can help med with this problem! |
any distro is good but incase u r a beginner u can try SUSE
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I am thinking about ubuntu, do you think the installation can sense my wireless lan on the laptop?
I saw ubuntu was only one cd to install, and I assume some sort of internet connection must be to complete the whole installation. |
I used knoppix and it's qtparted. just burn knoppix to a cd, boot up on the knoppix cd and run qtparted. It's graphical interface is very straight forward. You can get it from the links on linuxiso.org
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I think there's a decent chance ubuntu will be able to recognize the wireless, though I've heard that's one of trickier things with linux in general. If it doesn't you'll still have a workable computer without the connection just with what's on the one cd, and will need to do some tweaking to get the wireless to work.
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Ive dual booted my sony vaio Z1 with XP and FC4, its great. Used partition magic and installed fedora. The only issue i had was right after the partitions were created, for some reason my XP partition went inactive, so I had to use the partition magic emergency boot disks to set it active again. Good luck.
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Installed (k)ubuntu but got main problems! :(
I cant start X! "fatal server error error signal 4 server aborting" or something like that. |
only two tings are required
1. Hor Refresh rate of your LCD 2. Vert Refresh rate feed it inot your xorg.conf |
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