Ubuntu 11.10 thread

[pitz]

I created an iSCSI mount, and put the newest Ubuntu beta, Precision, on one of my D830's yesterday.

A few notes:

a) Everything works great out of the box. The iSCSI capability can saturate the Gig-E ethernet, even with my old CPU.

b) Very fast.

c) Booting through PXE works great.

d) Working on trying to get the laptop booting through an ath9k Wi-Fi card, which apparently is possible with the latest iPXE. Eventually would like to append iPXE to my D830's BIOS as an option ROM.

On that note, anyone know what sort of tools are required to work with the BIOS on the Dell Latitude D830's? I believe it is a Phoenix BIOS, but I'm not sure. Google searches seem to only turn up people hacking the BIOS' with the view towards piracy or bypassing MS registration codes, which isn't what I'm interested in.

[Aikimox]

Installed it on my 10-year old ThinkPad and everything is super smooth. No need to tweak drivers.



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