Re: Installing suitable linux distro on Dell Inspiron 5100!
From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/16/04
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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:19:38 -0400
On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:26:12 -0700, Raqueeb Hassan wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Long time no see. Well, I resized my ntfs partition with ntfsresize
> (mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html) and wanted to install a
> suitable linux distro to be used for c/c++ programming environment
> mostly. I don't need X-window right now but the internal Broadcom
> 10/100 ethernet, sound card and some kind of battery monitor with ACPI
> should work initially. I know redhat 9 or mandrake 9.2 should work
> fine but, I can't download 3 iso image CD's right now. So, I need a
> latest distro which would be not more than 650 MB, which I can
> download with my dial-up access. After googling for several hours, I
> found fedora/redhat to be better option, but it comes with 3/4 iso
> images. Can I download only the required modules from fedora/redhat
> and burn in on cd?
You can order CDROMs from http://www.linuxcentral.com, they cost
approximately $2 a disk plus shipping. It will save you the trouble of
doing a download.
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