[ale] vFAQ: Good distributions on Dell D610 laptops

[John Mills]

ALErs -

Still stumbling forward: I squeezed the WinXP installation down to a
reasonable size, then partitioned the rest of the disk starting with a
VFAT section as a DMZ between OS. I'll see whether the installers are
willing to accept my Linux partitioning or not, but I figured 'What the
hey? Parted can do this, too,' so I went ahead and partitioned as I hoped
could work.

By tomorrow I should have four installation candidates to consider:

 FC6 DVD
 Kubuntu 6.06 DVD
 Kubuntu 6.10 "Alternative CD"
 OpenSuSE 10.1 CD set

More than enough.

 - Mills

P.S. For better or worse, WinXP still boots. (It did have to shake 
itself a bit after being hit with 'parted'. &;^)

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Katherine Villyard wrote:

> Brian D. Pitts wrote:
> > *Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> on Mon 
> > Dec  4 2006 at 23:28 -0500 wrote:
> > *You're the only person I've ever heard say that the GUI install is
> > faster.  My experience is the opposite.

> > For me it's roughly 15 minutes with the live-cd installer 
> > (http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/bzr/ubiquity/ubuntu/doc/README 
> > <http://people.ubuntu.com/%7Ecjwatson/bzr/ubiquity/ubuntu/doc/README>) 
> > versus an hour with the alternate install cd.
 
> I've used the live CD twice, both on my boyfriend's hardware.  Granted, 
> his desktop is old, but his laptop is relatively new.  Both times I 
> bailed around the "partition your hard drive" screen and burned an 
> alternate install CD instead because it was so horrible and slow. 
 
> On my own hardware, I've always used the alternate CD.