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Installing DreamLinux on my laptop
So, after months of Ubuntu on my Dell 9300, and running World of Warcraft under Wine, I finally decided that Ubuntu was a little to heavy on my cpu and started looking at alternatives.
Going through Distrowatch, I see that DreamLinux has quite a following now.. and the screenshot looked purty ;) go here for more screenshots!
Downloaded it, burnt it and the process started.
Now, the plan was to replace everything on the laptop which has 100gig hdd in it.
The installation proceeded well and took around half and hour including the hdd formatting. Once installed, i popped onto the new OS only to find the wireless card was not being recognised. That was a bugger.
Did some searching and found out about ndiswrapper. This nifty piece of software allows you to take a Windows .inf file and install the drivers into Linux. Googlise ndiswrapper for more info.
Installed the wireless adapter drivers ok and managed to pop online at last! Next step was the nvidia drivers that needed installing. Finally managed to do that (and learn a few things about alt-control-f1 to start a new console session etc).
Its all looking good now. Wine is installed and WoW will be next tonight!
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dee Dee can sometimes be lazy in updating his blog.. feel free to give him a kick about anything you want to see on here! :)
