[plug] Debian laptop results

[Brad Campbell]

G'day all,

Having just completed my first clean Debian install in about 6 years onto my shiny new Dell Latitude 
D600 Laptop I thought I'd just knock out a quick post with WOW!

My company requires it's XP based SOE, but after a quick Partition Magic we made room for a shiny 
new Debian install.

Grabbed the latest Sarge Net-install with the new installer -rc3 and away we went.
Install proceeded with no hitches, installed Grub, configured the XP partition into the boot menu 
and boom we are away.

The two bits of hardware that did not get configured by default are the Internal Modem and IPW2200 
WiFi card. After downloading the latest 2.6.12-rc1 kernel and ipw2200 drivers we have WiFi (Talk 
about a dead easy install!), and the modem I'll get to sometime in the future (I don't use a modem 
anymore).

Colour me Impressed. I believe the internal USB bluetooth device is supported also (No bluetooth 
device to test it with).

I'm also wrapped with the way the new Debian installer handles its partition management and basic 
installation tasks. Neat, clean and efficient. If I was doing a complete newbie install onto a clean 
hard disk it would be even easier.

Brad
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