Turning my windows laptop in to a linux laptop

[Gregory Nowak]

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I did this about a month ago with debian. Just clean up the hd, and
install whatever distro you want, just like you would on a regular
desktop. You may also want to look at

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

to see if there are any notes/articles about your model.

BTW, what's a dcm?

Greg


On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:19:59PM -0500, Farhan wrote:
> Hi all, I have a couple of issues, and these are my options.
> Back in February, I found a dell inspiron 2500 for about $450 on overstock.com.
> When i got the thing, it had came with Windows xp home, I thought ok, fine what ever so i installed a screenreader on it, first problem.
> The dcm was all screwed up and i had no way of fixing this, well after that i almost got a refund on it sinse i had no way of fixing it and I tried everything.
> I finally reformatted and got a propper coppy of windows on it, and yeh, dcm is still screwed, so today, i was messing with grml on it, and it seemed to work.
> Can someone please help me out here and help me turn this laptop in to a linux machine, this dcm thing is really geting to me, and i want to find something a little bit more useable.
> The specs on this laptop are.
> pentium III 800 mhz with 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig harddrive.
> I have no external synth sinse the one I had well sort of got killed by a freakly high windstorm.
> Is there anyway i could install grml to the harddrive, still using the swspeak kernel, and use speechd-up on boot up to get speakup to speak from there?
> Sorry for all the stupid questions. 
> Farhan.	
> 
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