New lappy success!

[James Gray]

Hi All,

I (finally) got my HP NC6230 delivered yesterday. Much to my disgust, but not 
a surprise, it booted into ex-pee-pro, gah. OK, play the game, enter my 
life's story, sign away my soul, blah, blah....now onto Linux!

Obviously all of the 60GB drive was partitioned for NTFS. So I booted from the 
latest knoppix (3.9) and ran qtparted as root. Resize, commit, wait (about 15 
minutes) voila! Sweet, now the NTFS partition is only 20GB; plenty.

Next step was to boot from the Kubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) CD and see how far things 
got. To my utter amazement, everything was recognised out of the box and 
configured correctly. Even the Intel Pro Wireless 2200B/G (integrated via 
mini-PCI slot) was working. :D

This machine has now got all my old lappy's data migrated over, auto-config 
scripts restored (roll-my-own-profile stuff coz I couldn't be bothered 
dicking around with all the "whereami" frufru) and everything just humming 
and clicking.

Last step - install the ATi (X300) binary driver to get the 3D acceleration 
going and that's it! Even without the ATi driver, the machine is perfectly 
useable as a desktop-replacement.

So if anyone has been wondering what makes for a painless Linux+Lappy 
combination, I highly recommend the HP NC6230 with Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Note 
though, this lappy comes standard with the evil Broadcom Wifi chipset - I 
ordered mine specifically with the IPW2200BG Wifi as I knew it was supported 
under Linux. Supoort those whose support F/OSS!

Cheers,

James
-- 
You will step on the night soil of many countries.

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