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    Alternative Sager Operating System

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ARom, Apr 5, 2009.

  1. ARom

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    Hey,

    Has anyone purchased a Sager Machine without an Operating System (windows) and successfully partitioned a Linux based operating system on their machine?

    This isn't a gaming machine, on a budget and looking at the NP7680 for summer work.

    Thanks
     
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  2. Sp3ctrum

    Sp3ctrum Notebook Consultant

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    I have currently installed in dual boot ubuntu, kubuntu 9.04 and winXp. The essential worked out of the box(wired and wireless Internet, internal and usb keyboard,ntfs support), I installed manually the video and temp driver easily. The touchpad, webcam and fingerprint sensor does not work but I did not even try to install them because I never use them but I'm almost certain it's possible, if you have a day to waste forum are full of tutorial. And I haven't tried bluetooth and sleep/hibernate so I can't tell. Overall it's perfectly usable.

    (on a clevo m860tu/sager NP8660)
     
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    Do you suggest getting a cheap windows XP disk as a base? (safety net)

    which forums do you recommend?
     
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    Well it is preferable to have a second operating system in case linux fail to boot (it happen sometime when you update the core) so you can go on your second system to find a solution or in very rare case to backup your file if you can't fix linux.But it's not indispensable I think, a liveCD would do the job.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/ and http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/ (french)
    Those are the two I use, they are full of tutorial and people willing to help if you ask nicely
     
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