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My lovely K115m and Linux

donkeyoaty — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:56:46 GMT

I have just completed my install of SuSE 9.1 on my K115m with no problems at all, All of the drives were picked up and drivers for them installed automaticly. The only bug bear was the modem (it's a winmodem) but linmodems had a driver and this is working well, the ati 3d drivers are betas but holding there ground. Many thanx to all of those who helped me prepare for the change over .

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

jammold — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:55:03 GMT

Great! Was it easy to do? Can you dual-boot Windows XP?

I know that seems like a million questions but I have a friend interested in the Linux changeover - so I recommended SuSE - its on sale now for £20 (personal) and £40 (professional) from Amazon.

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

kee-lo_ — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:42:19 GMT

I have just completed my install of SuSE 9.1 on my K115m with no problems at all, All of the drives were picked up and drivers for them installed automaticly. The only bug bear was the modem (it's a winmodem) but linmodems had a driver and this is working well, the ati 3d drivers are betas but holding there ground. Many thanx to all of those who helped me prepare for the change over .

Superb!

I'll remember to recomend SuSE to VAIO users

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

jammold — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:47:17 GMT

Its much cheaper than Windows XP:smileydevil: So I might just take the plunge and try it as something new.

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

kee-lo_ — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:48:35 GMT

Miles cheaper

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

donkeyoaty — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:52:01 GMT

Hi James, I have a dual boot with my included oem version of xp sp2+, works great only load xp first and then defrag and compress a couple of times, using the windows defrag tool. Then pop in a iso and as long as your system is configed to boot from cd "Dada" SuSE loaded and detected all my hardware in about 10 mins, I then had to track down a driver for my cxt / rockwell winmodem. SuSE was my chiose, simply becuase I wanted to load on a laptop and SuSE seemed to have the most , strait out of the box for what I wanted. For chiose on a desktop I would use gentoo or debian, but they can be a bit of a struggle for a first timer. SuSE is cool but the help isn't all it's cracked up to be, English isn't my first language and by the sounds of it it wasn't the first for the help operator I used. And while it may not be a draw back for some, I picked a boxed copy so I could get help. If you know what your doing get a clone off the net for 2 to 3 squid, remember a clone is still legal, unlike some other os's.

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

kee-lo_ — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:59:15 GMT

Thats pretty impressive.

James: your network probably has it somewhere (most unis have a download server for it), so have a look....

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

jammold — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:11:09 GMT

Thanks for the heads-up Kee-Lo. Unix used to be Uni software, so manybe Staffs Uni have SuSE somewhere - I might try it - dual-booting.

Re: My lovely K115m and Linux

kee-lo_ — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:16:20 GMT

There's quite a few unis which have it on their FTPs too (Legally too )