Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just received a new Latitude C810. On my old laptop (a toshiba) I > had only linux installed. I'm wondering if I can erase Win2000 (not > for the refund, but it's the principle that counts :-)) of the > Latitude without having any problems. I have in mind two problems > that could arise > > - Trouble for performing BIOS upgrades (anyone can tell me what BIOS > these machines have anyway?)
I believe they have a custom Dell BIOS, which is shared between the Inspiron and Latitude lines. Recent 2.4.x kernels include a driver to access the fan and temperature state in the BIOS; the i8kutils package in unstable might be useful to you. > - Trouble for creating the hibernation partition. I found already on the > web there was an win executable to create the partition, but those are > somewhat hard to run under linux... If the latitude has a phoenix bios > however, I would use lphdisk to create the partition My laptop came with the hibernation partition pre-built; I used Partition Magic to shrink the existing Win2K partition, but if you're completely eliminating Windows it should be easy enough to keep the pre-existing partition with fdisk. > So, would it be wise to just insert my debian bootdisk and fly? My guess is that you'll have good luck doing that. :-) > To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy. > -- MIT Assasination Club "Assassins' Guild"; to my knowledge, there is no Assassination Club at MIT, and I've never killed anyone in a Guild game (well, excepting games whose stated purpose is to kill the maximum number of people in the minimum amount of time; and I guess I did banish a fair number of demons in a game five years ago, but divine combat doesn't *really* count, right? :-). http://www.mit.edu/~assassin/ -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
