[olug] Dell Inspiron 8100

[Jason Mollner]

I recently did a dual boot debian/xp on my inspiron 8200.  If you have any
questions, email me.  I got everything working fine except ACPI.  The only
tricky part was getting my radeon mobility 9000 to work with xfree86
4.2.1-7.  I had to fool it into thinking I had an 8500 instead of a 9000.

In my opinion, with Dell, the best approach is to back up your files and do
a new install of xp, turn off all those unecessary xp services, and
reinstall the dell utilities so you can use the special sound/video buttons
on the top.  I'm pretty sure the 8100 comes with a cdrw, so it shouldn't be
too hard to back up personal files and when you reinstall, you can
repartition the xp partition however you want.

Dell also has a tiny partition on the HD that they add so you can suspend to
disk.  If you still want to be able to do that, be sure to leave it there.

Peace,
-- a fellow 1979'er
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Evans" <munkey1979 at yahoo.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 1:03 AM
Subject: [olug] Dell Inspiron 8100


> I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 running Windows XP Home edition.  I would like
to ask the Olug members what the best aproach would be to setting up a Dual
boot system on this particular model laptop.  I want to running XP and Red
Hat linux.  I already have a Slackware 9.0 system and a Red Hat 8.0.  But I
would like a Moble Linux/XP system.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
> Scott
>
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