[SATLUG] Ok, Heres the specs.

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 20:51 -0500, Seth Sanchez wrote:
> Its a dell inspiron 5100 laptop, It has a 30 gig IDE hard drive, pentium 4, 
> 256 MB of ram, 17 Gig free space, DVD-ROM drive. I already have Linux 
> installed on my home PC, and wanted to get it installed on this. I cant get 
> it to work. I would like to get rid of wimdows tottaly on this, and just 
> dual boot linux's on here. I have the installation CD's for slackware
> 10.1and still consider myself to be a newbie in the world of Linux.
> Thats wh I
> needed help for this. as for a preffered linux distro, I would like to dual 
> boot slackware and Ill try almost anything else to get familiar with it. I 
> wish I had enough space to triple boot, but Im not sure I do. Again, I would 
> like to tottaly get rid of windows on this. I wiped the harde drive when I 
> got this as a gift from my parents and installed XP pro. I have nothing I 
> dont already have backed up or installed on my desktop PC. If someone could 
> get back to me, that would be great.

I have a 5100 as well, and it runs FC and RHEL flawlessly.  What do you
mean when you say you "can't get it to work?"  Is there an error message
at install time?  Does it install and not boot?  Does it boot but not
have good video?

Please have a peek at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
for a great guide on how to ask smart questions...

Thomas