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    Fedora 7 installation on XPS M1330

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by kmatzen, Aug 15, 2007.

  1. kmatzen

    kmatzen Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone here been able to install Fedora 7 on their m1330? There doesn't seem to be driver support for the DVD drive during installation so I was wondering if anyone has found a solution.

    Has anyone gotten linux to run on one of these? If so what distro?
     
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    jamezracer Notebook Enthusiast

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    kmatzen Notebook Consultant

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    This seems promising. I used Ubuntu on my old laptop and I am currently using it on my web/media server with great success.

    Unfortunately I wanted to get Fedora to work because my university uses Red Hat. I found that if I log in remotely with SSH and run a script on the host machine, I can navigate to a folder with all of the engineering applications. Then I can copy those files over to my computer and run then off my machine while using the university's licenses. I can't use Ubuntu for that though.

    I got some great software for free by doing that. PSpice, Matlab, Maya, Quartus, etc.
     
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    Any alternative installation media should work ( FTP/HTTP/NFS ).
    I have a PXE and local repository setup. I'm using kickstart file so i got unattended 10 minutes FC 7 installation without all those troubles.
    So if you have such possibility run linux with dhcpd,tftp on another PC and use local or remote httpd/ftp repository ( i prefer local as it makes the installation faster than from dvd :)

    Anyways I'm am about to test it in couple of days as my M1330 is coming and I'm defenietly going to use FC7 so I'll share my solution.
     
    paul_pro, Nov 20, 2007
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