New laptop
September 20th, 2007 | by Jory |Last night, I got my new laptop. Its a Vostro 1500 from Dell, and it looks hawt. It has a Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2 GHz, 2 X 1GB DDR2-666 SDRAM, a Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM 160GB hard drive. Graphics and sound aren’t the greatest ever, but I didn’t buy it for gaming anyway. I got it to be fast, and it sure is. 
The laptop came with Windows Vista Business edition, which is actually pretty nice. Sure, I can’t find my way around it, but thats probally just getting used to it. I do want to install Windows XP and Kubuntu on it as well, though. XP because I actually need it for school (They force us to use MS Visual Studio.) and Kubuntu because thats what I want to actually use.
The problem with Windows XP is that, apparently, my harddrive is so exotic or something, that the installation disk doesn’t have drivers for them. I have a driverset thats supposed to work with XP, but haven’t yet figured out how to make the installer use them. (If anyone is actually reading this, feel free to make suggestions. 
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I’ve decided to wait untill Kubuntu 7.10 comes out before installing that, because somehow whenever I attempt an upgrade, it becomes a mess.
Oh, and I want an actual mouse. :/
3 Responses to “New laptop”
By Seth on Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
You need to either slipstream the SATA drivers onto the disc, or put them on a floppy and then press F6 while XP setup is loading when it says “Press F6 to load additional drivers”. XP doesn’t handle SATA drives natively.
By Seth on Sep 21, 2007 | Reply
E.g. http://www.msfn.org/board/Unattended_install_SATA_drivers_Flop_t13173.html&hl=Si3112r
By Jory on Oct 6, 2007 | Reply
A verry overdue thank you for the information, Seth.
It seems there just isn’t a driver that XP will work with for my HD, which is kind of sad. But oh well, Vista isn’t actually that bad, and I still have hopes of being able to install Kubuntu.