[conspire] Attendee with an HP gamer/home system

[Rick Moen]

I found mentions of people having various problems back in Fedora Core 5
days, but odds are it should be fine, now.

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:58:36 -0800 (PST)
From: dm <dcmurphyiv at yahoo.com>
To: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Sat. Nov. 10 	4pm

Rick, Duncan,

fyi: I'm planning to attend this next installfest:

Sat. Nov. 10 	4pm - midnight 	Menlo Pk CABAL
meeting/installfest 

I have an HP desktop Pavilion a1430n running Windows
XP and I'm hoping to convert it to a dual boot.  If
all goes has planned, I'll have the hard drive
partitioned and the Windows partition defraged.  

Thanks in advance,
~Dan



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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:59:51 -0800
To: dm <dcmurphyiv at yahoo.com>
Cc: installers at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: Sat. Nov. 10 	4pm
Reply-To: installers at linuxmafia.com
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>

Quoting dm (dcmurphyiv at yahoo.com):

> fyi: I'm planning to attend this next installfest:
> 
> Sat. Nov. 10 	4pm - midnight 	Menlo Pk CABAL meeting/installfest 
> 
> I have an HP desktop Pavilion a1430n running Windows XP and I'm hoping
> to convert it to a dual boot.  If all goes has planned, I'll have the
> hard drive partitioned and the Windows partition defraged.  

Hi.  We'll be delighted to see you, then!  

Looks like that unit's an Athlon 64x2 3800 CPU (Socket 939), usually
provided with a 250 GB hard drive.  Motherboard is (said to be) an ASUS
(something) with an Nvidia GeForce 6150LE video chip.  You'll want to
consider which distro, and whether to go with a 32-bit or 64-bit
release, as your machine will run either.  Most people seem to go with
32-bit, to ease problems with proprietary Web browser plugins (e.g.,
Macromedia Flash) and other proprietary audio/video programs being
unavailable compiled for Linux 86_64.



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