Which Inspiron? I have Redhat 7.2 install in my 5000e. Dell is using
software modems but mine works ok once I down loaded the code for it.
Might have fun with X dell uses non standard chip sets many times and it
takes a bit of tweaking to get it to work.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 12:26, charlie bullen wrote:
> Good Morning, 
> 
> I have a real opportunity here. I have been using linux as my desktop for 
> about 6 weeks with good results. The owner of the company, Dave, wants me to 
> install linux on his copmuter which is a Dell Inspiron running windows XP 
> professional. It will be a dual boot. Plenty of room on hard drive. Dave is a 
> very expirienced Unix and linux server user, but all his expierience is from 
> the command line, he's never used X at all.
> 
> I have resized hard drives on systems running Window 95 and 98 using fips (i 
> think that's the name, comes with all distros I have used) will this work the 
> same way on windows XP? Any forseeable problems? 
> 
> Can I expect problems with his modem?
> 
> Ive never installed linux on a laptop before, any particular problems I can 
> expect? I watched the fellow from Redhat install Redhat 7.3 on a Dell laptop 
> at the install fest and there were no problems at all, but he did nothing 
> with the moden, using the nic for internet connectivity.
> 
> Personally I mainly use Suse, currently 8.0 but all our linux servers here are 
> Redhat. Also we are planning on a K12LTSP installation soon so I'm leaning 
> towards either redhat 7.3 or just installing the K12LTSP installation which 
> is based on Redhat 7.3 anyway.  I want him to have OpenOffice and K12LSTP 
> installs that by default. Any recomendations would be appreciated.
> 
> I feel that it is real important to get this to work perfectly as it has been 
> sort of a battle here, first to get permission for me to use linux and then 
> to get it working with some of our proprietaty stuff. This is the next 
> battle, to convince the owner by his own expierience that linux is viable as 
> a desktop for general office users.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Charlie 
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