liquidzoo Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 I am thinking about buying a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop soon, I was wondering if anyone has had luck installing Mandrake on this particular laptop. I have checked www.linux-laptop.net but I only find info on the Inspiron 8100. Does anyone have 9.0 up and running on this laptop? If so, is there anything I need to watch out for? edited to fix the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Search http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/ for 8200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 14, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Thanks bvc, I found a thread there that was really helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 One thing to be aware of is that Dell has a hibernation partition at the beginning of the HD, you will need to get rid of it, and if also dual booting Windows reinstall Windows without that partition. I have an Inspiron 4000 that works fine with Mdk 9 dual booted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 14, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 That I did not know, thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 Can you order the dell without the hibernation partitions nowadays? When I got my Dell 3 years ago, it came with all the Cd's. What happens if you order a dell now (have a friend planning to get one)? Do you get all the Cd's or does Dell just put everything on the restore partition and too bad so sad if you lose that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest caslca Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 Got my Inspiron 4100 this fall. Came with winXp home CD and MS Works CD (that was the lowest amount of MS software i could get Dell to sell me the notebook with). Oh, and there was no hibernate and no restore partitions. Just one big 30gig partition for windoze to bloat in :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 I was just about ready to purchase a dell 8200 online but then they discontinued the 64MB Geforce4 440 GO graphics option. Now you either have to get the 64MB radeon 9000 mobile or the 32MB NV17 graphics option. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted December 16, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2002 I'm still going to get the 8200, I think it looks like a good, stable laptop. I agree that it would be better with the 64 MB GeForce 4, but I'm ok with the 32 MB version. I have no experience with ATI cards, I've only owned nvidia chips so I don't think I'll go that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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