Dell Inspiron 9300

ssnelgrove · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

Hey I may be geting a Dell Inspiron 9300 i was wondering if any one has tryed puting gentoo on it and how good it worked and did all the hardware work like it should or if any one knows any thing i should know thats diff then a normal gentoo setup?

P.S and as much as i hate to say i will be dual booting it with windows

Specs For Inspiron 9300
Base - Intel® Pentium® M 730 Processor (1.60GHz/533MHz FSB)
LCD - 17in True Life Wide Screen UXGA Display
Memory - 512MB DDR SDRAM
Video Card - 256MB NVIDA® GeForce Go 6800
Hard Drive - 60GB
Network Card - Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
CD ROM/DVD ROM - 24X CD-RW/DVD Combination Drive
Wireless - Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
Bluetooth - Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal(2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

zonk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 176

http://www.linux-laptop.net/hosted/dell-inspiron-9300.html

for suse, but still seems like most hardware should work.

taskara · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:50 am Post subject:

everything (bar suspend to ram atm) works very well for me. nice laptop, very happy

I got 2ghz intel
1gb ram
nvidia
100gb hdd
bluetooth
intel 2200 wireless
1920x1200 screen
dvd-rw
etc

-c
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