by Wirehead
Rightardia upgraded an HP NC 8000 laptop and with a digital drive that had no moving parts.
We looked a Tiger Direct and found a PATA drive that would work but it was only 16GB. For the same price we ordered the big brother 32 GB Kingspec SSD Professional drive from China. See http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2010/09/installing-digital-laptop-drive-using.html on this drive.
We looked a Tiger Direct and found a PATA drive that would work but it was only 16GB. For the same price we ordered the big brother 32 GB Kingspec SSD Professional drive from China. See http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2010/09/installing-digital-laptop-drive-using.html on this drive.
We tried Ubuntu Linx first and Linux Mint, a Ubuntu/Debian product, but Ubuntu and Linux Mint both had problems formatting the digital drive. We even tried the latest versions of Unbuntu--10.04 and 10.04.01--with no success. We could format the digital drive with Fedora 13, but the OS was unstable. Firefox would lock up and when we would reboot, the partition was gone. We tried Grub recovery disk, the Super Grub recovery disk and Rescatux with no luck.
Then Wirehead downloaded Fedora 14 I686 .iso beta file and burned a new DVD. We were able to install it and fully upgrade it. Everything looked good until we noticed the network aplet for the wirelesss connection had disappeared. This is a known bug with some Intel hardware. We reloaded Fedora 14 again, but did selective upgrades.
Then Wirehead downloaded Fedora 14 I686 .iso beta file and burned a new DVD. We were able to install it and fully upgrade it. Everything looked good until we noticed the network aplet for the wirelesss connection had disappeared. This is a known bug with some Intel hardware. We reloaded Fedora 14 again, but did selective upgrades.
Wirehead suggests just updating Newest Packages, Selected packages, Admin tools, Gnome Desktop and Office. System upgrades are risky and may blow the network connection away, For reasons unknown, Fedora does not install most of the Open Office applications. Wirehead had to manually install the word processor. The spreadsheet and presentation programs aren't installed by default either.
Firefox version 3.6.7 is stable and the firewall front end that comes with Fedora is excellent. The ClamAv anit-virus and malware suite with the Clam
TK front end installed without a hitch. This install was buggy in Fedora 13.
The refurb laptop works great now. Take a look at the customized desktop that uses the Red Hat Blue Curve theme:
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Firefox version 3.6.7 is stable and the firewall front end that comes with Fedora is excellent. The ClamAv anit-virus and malware suite with the Clam
TK front end installed without a hitch. This install was buggy in Fedora 13.
The refurb laptop works great now. Take a look at the customized desktop that uses the Red Hat Blue Curve theme:
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