Re: Dell 8600 Laptop and SuSE Success

From: rob (robhwill_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:09:39 GMT

Buck Rogers wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just wanted to relay the following:
>
> Dell 8600 Laptop
> Intel Centrino M 2.0ghz
> 768 meg ram
> ATI 9600 mobile w/128 meg ram
> 60 gig Ultra ATA 7200 rpm
> Combo DVD reader/CDRW recorder
> Internal wireless
> Internal NIC
> Internal Sound
> Internal Modem
>
> Pre-loaded with WinXP Pro
>
>
> 1. Started, configured, updated, and added the programs I wanted in
> XP.
> 2. Took out laptop hard drive, and with an adapter ribbon cable I
> have, made it a secondary master on a desktop machine I have that is
> running XP Pro. Bought the adapter ribbon on line.....can't remember
> where.
> 3. Ghosted the laptop XP partition (desktop using Norton Ghost 2003)
> and stored it on the desktop HD..
> 4. Re-booted desktop in to XP, went into administrative tools ->
> computer management -> disk management and blew away the laptop's 55
> meg XP HPFS file system.
> ***Dell's computers have two hidden partitions....one for diagnostics
> and one for the original sys image in case one would ever want to go
> back to the original setup. One can, but I wouldn't advise blowing
> away these partitions.
> 5. Re partitioned the drive to accommodate a dual boot of WinXP and
> Linux. 25 gig Win NTFS, 20 gig no file system, 5 gig Fat32, 1gig no
> file system, and 200meg no file system.
> 6. Rebooted to the Ghost Boot Disk and Restored the XP image to the
> 25 gig HPFS partition. Shut down desk top.
> 7. Pulled laptop HD from desktop and replaced in laptop.
> 8. Booted XP.........Success. Checked out disk structure in
> Administrative tools and all looked fine.
> 9. Shut down and booted the FC3 disks. No luck.....didn't like the
> disk geometry. This is a known bug at bugzilla. Didn't want to deal
> with it so.......
> 10. Booted the SuSE 9.1 Pro disks and the install went
> fantastic....full install from the DVD........./ on a 20 gig
> partition, /boot on a 200meg partition, and /Swap on a 1gig partition.
> I have the 5gig FAT32 partition to transfer to and from XP. The HPFS
> partition is mounted as read only.
>
> Everything is great except for the following:
>
> 1. No 3d in the graphics area ( I knew this would be the case)
> 2. Wireless NIC not recognized. (I knew this would be the case). No
> problem because my internal NIC is recognized and I can surf and
> connect to others on my home network.
>
> Haven't tried the modem as I have no use for it......I have a cable
> modem.
>
> Hope this is an inspiration for those out there who want to dual boot
> their laptops or desktops and are stymied by the way MS commands the
> entirety of the hard drive when one buys a pre-built system.
>
> HTH Someone
>
> Buck
>
>
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Congratulations! --- Just a short note: often it is more time
saving and directly controlled (hard disk) to " zero out the hard disk
with the DISKEDIT program from Symantec (or something similar).
This is the most reliable, safe means of zeroing I know of. All
manufacturers of hard disks also *keep* a small bit of space for
ID, diagnostics, formatting, etc. Norton's (symantec) diskedit program
will handily and safely erase all of these to pure zeros!!
--Take Care....
--robert
Have A Healthy, Prosperous Day!

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