Re: Trouble installing Feisty on a DELL Inspiron e1505
- From: Paul S <paulatgm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 07:36:32 -0400
Damien Hull said the following on 04/30/2007 10:58 PM:
I was helping someone install Ubuntu on a DELL Inspiron e1505. We ran
into a few problems.
1. The Live CD for Feisty wouldn't bring up X
Same laptop and same problem here .. the installer tries to use the vesa
driver, but fails. You'll have to use the alternate.
2. The alternative CD showed different partitions
1. We would like dual boot between Windows and Linux
No problem, except you will lose your dell media player and your dell
system restore when you repartition and write to the master boot record.
Check out goodells.net/dellrestore for info and suggestions on how to
preserve it. I had already deleted my master boot record before I found
this site, so had no chance to use his tool. If you haven't installed
anything yet, you'r master boot record may still be salvagable. But,
once you change it, I think you'll lose it anyway.
2. I'm not sure how to backup all the DELL recovery partitions
1. I think there were 4 partitions
1. MBR
2. Windows
3. Something in the 2gig range
4. Something in the 3 gig range (I think)
3. Some of the info I found on Google said something about the BIOS
which I don't want to touch
We booted a copy of Sabayon ( http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ ). X came up
just fine. Checked the xorg.conf file and found that it was using the
fglrx driver. I'm not sure how that works but that's what was in the
xorg.conf file.
My E1505 has the ATI X1400. The fglrx driver is the ati provided video
driver for this. After you install by the alternate cd, you'll want to
follow the wiki.ubuntu.com entry on installing the ati driver to get it
working.
Can someone tell me a safe way to dual boot Linux and Windows on this
laptop? It's not mine and I don't want to damage Windows.
You'll still have windows, but the dell media and dell restore will be
lost. The alternative is to keep windows installed and use a live CD
for linux, if that's acceptable to you.
HTH
Paul
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