Re: New Sony VAIO support?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wehe> hint, I would like to have such a machine and work on it ;-) > > if i had an extra, i'd send one to you ;-) > > wehe> Or more serious, what about a Linux VAIO Project? > > sounds interesting to me. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subjec

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Kero van Gelder writes: | > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, | > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: | > First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled | > with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all | >

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Try using the 'potato' boot disks. These recognise a greater than 8MB disk. I am using a Dell Latitude with a 12MB hard drive and cfdisk on the potato boot disks recognises the drive correctly, even the existing ntfs partition was detected correctly. Hope this helps.. Johnny. Martyn Pearce wrot

Re: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Klaus Drews wrote: >I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, >I thought this one would work with Linux. But: >First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled >with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all

SOLVED: DELL Inspiron 5000 wrong harddisk-size

Thanks to all, it seams, that slink can't handle it. Normally I have an peridiodical update over IP. So the only CD's I had got where old. Thanks, Klaus. > Hallo, > > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: > First thi