Hello from Sydney Australia

[ripcurl]

Hey guys

Thanks for Linux MInt. Installation was so easy. I feel like an old friend has come back to visit. I have been a windows vista user for a few years...
I had Red Hat and Fedora Linux several years ago now and I seem to recall that configuration of the hardware and modem always took a bit of doing and searching!
Everything worked out of the box! I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 with extra Acer display. It all works!
It took a while for me to realise that I didn't need any special drivers for my Vodaphone USB internet, it also works! I remember it took me ages to get that working on windows vista.

I haven't done a partition install yet, just sitting on a virtualbox for now. That will be the next step, as I want more than 30GB for linux.

Jan

[ibm450]

hello from perth

good to see another auzzie using mint

[nunol]

Welcome to the Linux Mint Forums Jan!

Cheers.

[The-Wizard]

welcome to the mint family forums


wizard

[xenopeek]

Hi Jan, welcome to the Linux Mint forums Thanks for joining the forums! Not wanting to bust your expectations, but running in VirtualBox is different from running on real hardware. Suggest before you do a partition install, you retest all your hardware is working from the Live session. It may be that some things in VirtualBox were working because of Windows having the drivers for it. Hopefully it will all work out-of-the-box, but give it a test

Be sure also to check out the Community website (ideas, tutorials, and hardware and software reviews), and the Cinnamon Spices website for adding themes, applets and extensions to Cinnamon (and check out the Cinnamon Extras package, which will install a lot of these for your automatically). If you haven't installed Cinnamon, see here the most recent update for a teaser.

You can also chat in real-time with other Linux Mint users. In the Mint Menu, in the Internet section, start the application XChat IRC. You will automatically get connected to #linuxmint-chat for general chat and #linuxmint-help for support with other Linux Mint users.

[ripcurl]

Hi Vincent

okay thanks for the tip. It wouldn't worry me if I had to fiddle a bit to make it work, I have been through all that with various linux distro's before, and I can google it...

When you say test from the 'Live session', you mean linuxmint session?

Jan

[xenopeek]

Sorry, with Live session I mean booted from the Linux Mint installation medium (CD/DVD/USB). Trying out the OS without installing yet

[ripcurl]

Ah yes, I did read that somewhere recently, thanks for the heads up, that's a great idea!

[ripcurl]

Just a quick followup, I updated my install, and did a proper partition install this time, I figured I cant wait! I took the advice and did the live boot first, everything seemed to work, so I decided to go ahead.
I backed up all my documents and files and everything first!! just in case..

I installed linuxmint as dual boot with windows vista along side. (I have Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop)

I read somewhere that it was better to use vista's own facility to shrink the partition, which caused a minor headache, but I found some info about getting around vista issues--initially it wouldn't let me shrink my partition at all! After folllowing this post
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/
I managed to shrink 50GB. That will do me for now! Later I will wipe the whole laptop, and reinstall fresh, and get rid of dell stuff.

Everything worked after that, the install was straightforward even though I was expecting to have to do some configuring..
Internet worked, I have a usb modem vodaphone, no problem at all.

Jan )))))