I just purchased the above laptop. It works fine with the preinstalled Windows XP (Media Center edition), but installing Debian isn't going well.
First of all, Windows Disk Defragmenter find immovable files right in the middle of the NTFS partition, making it hard to create a substantial ext3 or other Linux-native one. Secondly, when I try to resize the 65.5 GB NTFS partition at all, the Debian Installer (Etch Beta 3) accepts my input (either 50% or 30 GB, or various other numbers I tried), but then returns instantly to the previous screen with the NTFS partition still sized at 65.5. I am guessing that GNU parted is failing in a way that the installer doesn't know how to report. If I open the second VT (Alt-F2) and run parted, the system freezes and requires power-off to restart. Another data point: if I boot the current Knoppix CD, it runs fine, but Knoppix can't even detect the hard drive. It finds the CD as /dev/hda and no other hard disk devices. Any suggestions? If it's something obvious I hate to bug the installer team. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
