Dual boot on HP dv2000t

Hallo, has anyone tried to install / dual boot Linux on a dv2000t? Which distro and did you run into any major issues?

I recently bought a dv2000t w/ the nVidia card and am hoping to dual-boot Linux and Windows after I clean up all the bloatware. I hope to install Gentoo or maybe SuSE..

 

I suggest SUSE if you have 1 Gb of RAM or more because has a better automatic hardware detection than gentoo and is easier to install. If you haven't ever use linux, use SUSE otherwise gentoo.

g'luck

 

Hmm, I'm wondering how one can compare SUSE and Gentoo :-D

SUSE and Ubuntu are good choices to check whether there are problems, I think.
If you want to install Gentoo, I presume that you have enough knowledge to configure everything yourself anyway ;-)

Regards
Aaron

 

Hehe. I second Aaron's suggestion What I'd really suggest is getting an Ubuntu/Kubuntu LiveCD and just testing it before installing it. See if you can get all the hardware working mostly with the LiveCD, and if so, then it should be fine to install. I don't use SUSE, so I can't recommend for or against it, but I'm a fan of Kubuntu.

 

I would suggest kanotix to n00bs- lots of useful scripts for getting your networking and video configured, as well as updating and so forth. I played with gentoo, and it was lots of fun to get up off the ground, but it takes waaaay to much time for a computer that you need to start *using* in short order. I spent a weekend just getting the CLI up, then found out it was going to take a day or two to get kde oo.o. I had to give up at that point because of time constraints. Compare that to kanotix, which gave me a completely funcitonal machine in about 10 minutes. I'll go back to gentoo once I have the time to spare. It really was fun.

 

I would say Mepis 6.0 since its based off of Ubuntu but its easier to get things done without command line. It also has a great help/support. Also, the community is huge not only do you get Mepis's support group but you can also get access to the immense "help centers" their forums are huge they can virtually answer any question politely and quickly. Unlike my experience with other "elite" groups on linux boards who just have community "help" forums to find and flame any "n00bs".

 

i'm a gentoo fan, i like setting it up myself, and i like how it organizes certain things. yeah, it is a pain and time consuming to set all up and get working, but i like it ~~