Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-15 Thread James McKenzie
On 10/14/10 3:36 AM, sumatheja wrote: > > Hi All, > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. What items are not supported? > Can anyone suggest me if i

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 14 October 2010 06:38 PM, sumatheja wrote: > Hi Bruce and Jatin, > Thanks for the info. I am thinking of > using a live cd first and install it everything wotks fine thats a good idea > . How about RHEL5 does it have all the drivers??? which one is bette

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:06 +0530, sumatheja wrote: > > Hi All, > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if > its a good idea to i

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread bruce
Sumatheja, In my case, I was never able to get Centos 5 to install using the livecd/dvd. fedora 13 worked from the dvd, although the issues i mentioned had to be dealt with. i'm not sure that the updated functions/drivers in f13 could be backported to centos5, and i have no idea if centos 6 woul

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Thanks a lot David. :) On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, David García Granda wrote: > Hi, > > > How about using rhel?? does't work well? > > If you have any problem with new hardware, any new driver or fix will > be implemented first on Fedora, so it should be the preferred option. > >

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread David García Granda
Hi, >     How about using rhel?? does't work well? If you have any problem with new hardware, any new driver or fix will be implemented first on Fedora, so it should be the preferred option. HTH, David > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David García Granda > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >  

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi David, How about using rhel?? does't work well? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David García Granda wrote: > Hi, > > > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems > > with i

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi Bruce and Jatin, Thanks for the info. I am thinking of using a live cd first and install it everything wotks fine. How about RHEL5 does it have all the drivers??? which one is better in this case RHEL or fedora?? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Jatin K wrote: > O

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread David García Granda
Hi, >     I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers problems > with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if its a good idea > to install fedora on dell ? Yes it is. > Is anyone successfull

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread Jatin K
On Thursday 14 October 2010 04:06 PM, sumatheja wrote: > > Hi All, > I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell > inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers > problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if > its a good idea

Re: Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread bruce
Hi. Saw your msg. I've successfully gotten F13 running on a 17" n7010 inspiron laptop. Never could get the Centos 5.5 to install from DVD. My issues: -xorg, for monitor, --ensure that i have a blank xorg.conf in the /etc/X11 dir and things seem to work ok, if i had a test xorg.conf, the display

Installing fedora on dell inspiron 15

2010-10-14 Thread sumatheja
Hi All, I need some suggestion on installing fedora 13 on my new dell inspiron n5010. Through many forums i found there are some drivers problems with installing fedora 13 on dell. Can anyone suggest me if its a good idea to install fedora on dell ? Is anyone successfully running fedora on