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Posted: April 27 2006,12:54 |
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Hello, I am planning on installing Damn Small Linux on my laptop (IBM R50e - Cel. M 1.3Ghz, 512 RAM etc). I am planning on doing an HDinstall (since I use only one system, and I don't really feel I have the knowledge to do a frugal install).
I have a few concerns, I would like to clear up before I go ahead with the install:
1) All IBM laptops come with a rescue partition, and a way to access it (I am guessing some kind of boot manager though it's not explicit) -- after installing dsl will I be able to keep both my regular Windows system and the rescue one (I know i will keep the windows one but what about the rescue?)
2) Power maintenance -- is there a tutorial to set up all the power management options on a laptop (i.e. lid closing, battery schemes etc) or does dsl provide that "out of the box"
3) Wireless - I have a Netgear MA521 wireless PCMCIA card -- does anyone have experience getting such a card to run, and is it possible?
4) How does it behave with external usb sound cards -- I have a Philips Aurilium 5.1 external card (on top of the embedded one), i know it recognizes it but are there proper drivers and so on?
Thanks, all comments and suggestions will be appreciated
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