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Hey guys I have a sharp PC-MV10 with windows xp pofessional already installed. I want to dual boot this with redhat 9.0. I plan to partition the disk during the ...
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  1. 11-18-2004 #1
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    Dual Booting A Laptop

    Hey guys
    I have a sharp PC-MV10 with windows xp pofessional already installed. I want to dual boot this with redhat 9.0. I plan to partition the disk during the installation. I found a toutorial ( http://www.people.virginia.edu/~hz5p/laptop.html), but it isn't my exact computer. I have an internal cd-rw/dvd drive, and external usb floppy dirve, and a wired usb microsoft mouse. I just need the usb, sound, and internal wireless to work.(if the internal wireless wont work, i have a pcmcia card if the pcmcia slot works.) Does anybody forsee problems with this?? I have room on the hard drive, but im worried about the display, because in the howto it says letting linux probe you display can break it! Is this true? sorry about the long post [/url]
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    dude
    that's really not that long of a post
    and i don't think you'll need a tutorial.
    also, unless you tell it to do something insane, linux won't break your monitor
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    RH 9 fits in almost all laptops quite well. Sometimes you get some problems with the disply wherein you have to increse the display buffer size to approx 16 MB in the BIOS settings.

    This is the only problem I've faced so far!
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  4. 11-19-2004 #4
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    Just to let eveyone know, i installed it with windows and it works with only two problems (but most likely it's just something im not doing/done wrong) When I click program to run it, such as Internet configuration wizard, it dosen't open. Any ideas why? I'm also wondering how to get my PCMCIA card to work. I think the slot works, but i don't know how to check.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lakerdonald
    dude
    that's really not that long of a post
    and i don't think you'll need a tutorial.
    also, unless you tell it to do something insane, linux won't break your monitor
    What is the insane command you are talking about?
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    telling it that you have a vertical refresh rate of 320 hz, for example
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    isnt that just stupid? X tells you that you need to know ur h/v refresh eate search Google for the manual.
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    stupid? insane? what's the difference
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    Stupid and here is insane they are differnt to me.
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    meh.
    they both end up with a fried up monitor, right?
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