Re: FN-FORUM: Anybody got a Dell Laptop?

date posted 21st January 2006 10:31

I have a couple of Latitude D Series. The recovery CD is actually a full
operating system CD, so you could use a retail or action pack CD. You can
get any missing drivers from Dell's site by putting the support tag number
of the machine into the appropriate box on Dell's support pages. If you
contact support and give them that number, they'll send you new media for a
fee.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Cowley" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Anybody got a Dell Laptop?


>
> I have a Dell Inspiron, I brought when I used to be self employed before
> 9/11. Currently I run SuSE9.2 on it and a number of other machines - other
> than having to work out how to get the X-Server to run when in its docking
> station I've never had any real problems - but then I don't do web
> development.
>
> I've also not really got into open office, although I really should as it
> would more than cope with most of what I need to do.
>
> As to NVu, I've not used any of the advanced features but it does allow
> basic web pages to be written and spell checked - I just use it to write
the
> Session logs and NPC diaries for my Amber RPG campaign.
>
> If you're going to run linux I would recommend you get SuSE - it's self
> installing unlike Redhat and will run out-of-the-box. I use
> www.linuxemporium.co.uk as my supplier.
>
> Just as a side note the Inspiron is about 3 times quicker running linux as
> running W2K. I have it dual boot and have run Oracle under both.
>
> Vortex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of D D
> Glendinning
> Sent: 20 January 2006 10:52
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM: Anybody got a Dell Laptop?
>
>
>
> Morning all!
>
> I have an old-ish laptop which I get on really well with, so not
> willing to get rid of it just yet, but it is getting a little slow,
> and probably needs a fresh reset/reboot/clean.
> I know the newer models have a built in factory rest (Ctrl+F11 on
> startup) which gives you a secret menu to restore the system but the
> old ones don't, and I don't have the restore CD... Any ideas? Anybody
> got an old Dell as well? (Its a Dell Lattitude CPx)
>
> I have been getting into open source software more and more, and would
> consider installing linux on it, but not sure how I would go about
> doing that whilst also cleaning the hard disk out.
>
> Any help or feedback from experience greatly appreciated!
>
>
> D
>
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