Inspion 5150 Laptop and Fedora

Aaron J. Greenwood agreenwo at uci.edu
Sat Dec 6 16:05:45 UTC 2003


A colleague asked me to help him install Linux on his Dell Inspion 5150 
Laptop computer with Nvidia graphics and running Windows XP.


I used partition magic to repartition his 80 GB hard drive into two 
partitions one for XP and one for Fedora. XP was left in the first 
partition. Also, there is a tiny partitions for Dell utilities at the 
very beginning of the disk. Something I have never seen before.


First installation attempt failed because X would not start properly.


Second installation using text mode failed because the installation 
program while loading the installation and setup programs to disk 
reported that their was not enough disk space.


I tried Red Hat 8. It hung during the boo process. I used disks I had 
installed from many times before.


Also, install reported that it did not like creating the root directory 
on the second partition.


I have through of moving XP to the second partition and installing Linux 
on the first partition if that would help ( What a potential nightmare).


Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.






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