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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Nah, my little kubuntu worked and works a threat, simply. Reisio, lovely. Install went this way (maybe due to the partnership between Dell and ubuntu) : burn iso, dvd autoruns on Windows to offer testing of some famous opensource apps (Firefox, Thunderbird..). Reboot on dvd (or cd, basically it is a 700MB cd image), ubuntu starts fine. One icon on the desktop : "install". Only 3GB non partitioned space available, I click "install". The installer asks me five questions, one being "how do you want to partition..". I leave it up to the installer to decide, I am a bitch at times (at the risk of losing some existing files). I have yet to understand HOW it did that, I think it resized an NTFS partition or something, in order to create it's 3 partitions. Anyhow, 10-15 minutes later, the install is over. I reboot : ALL my devices have been identified, my external wireless adapter still has a couple of difficulties but.. ATI drivers installed great, those that work with XGL in addition. OpenGL screensavers are shiny. Some tweaking with the display, I find my display in the "by constructor" hardware list and... I am done. I wish any Windows install would be as professional, transparent and confortable. Now I have to : - setup XGL - tweak and test my wireless drivers - install Wine and move a couple of apps over - install FF, Java, and some web stuff - install codecs for divx and xvid Then I can quietly redo the partitioning to have a common FAT partition (but I may simply define some Samba shares or something). All in all, this thing ROCKS. Will keep you posted. Loading...
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