CentOS - Apr 2007 - [OT] CentOS 5 and Inspiron 6400 [WAS: CentOS 5 - Issues with multimedia]

Hi Gabriel,
> I am having some issues with CentOS 5.
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> I am running a clean install of CentOS 5 i386 on a Dell Inspiron 6400
> (Core Due, 1GB RAM) with SELinux on "enforcing".
I've just received my new 6400 (T7400, 2GB, 160GB, Vista Home Premium) 
and I'd like to install CentOS 5 too. With big surprise (looking at the 
partition table first and then, googling, 
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm) I found that Dell is 
used to use the whole of the four partitions (see the url above for 
details).

Did you remove any of these partitions (e.g. the Media Direct one)? 
Could you share your experience? I'd like to preserve the base 
functionalities without preventing me to use CentOS 5 as the master OS.

Thanks in advance,
Matteo

> I've just received my new 6400 (T7400, 2GB, 160GB, Vista Home
> Premium) 
> and I'd like to install CentOS 5 too. With big surprise (looking at
> the 
> partition table first and then, googling, 
> http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm) I found that Dell is 
> used to use the whole of the four partitions (see the url above for 
> details).
> 
> Did you remove any of these partitions (e.g. the Media Direct one)? 
> Could you share your experience? I'd like to preserve the base 
> functionalities without preventing me to use CentOS 5 as the master
> OS.
I removed all partitions and reinstalled from scratch. My machine came
with XP Home and I replaced it with XP pro on a small partition (10
GB).

If I remember correctly, you can reinstall the dell software and it
will only wipe the first partition (sda1), but that only applies to XP.

Let me know if you have any other doubts :)

Gabriel


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