Posts by dimm0k

Run the diagnostics mode and have it check your fans... I sold the system as-is to someone on eBay who told me that after running through the built-in Dell diagnostics the culprit was a dead fan.

I would have to say that Slackware 13.1 seems to be a lot more faster and stable in terms of working right out of the box than 13.0 did, but at the same time 13.0 was a winner as well. I am not sure about Fedora, but Ubuntu I just tried...

Why would you say the price to be so low if it's barely used and comes with everything in the retail box??

Unfortunately no, I have already passed their limit on the number of days between purchase and returns...

Looking to sell my Lenovo W510 that is barely used and would like to know what a good price to sell it for is. The specs are as follows: 1) Lenovo Thinkpad W510, pre-configured machine so the spec list is standard for part number...

Well what I wanted to do was basically shrink the Windows partition to have Windows and Linux on the same drive... that was accomplished with gparted. The difficult part was getting some sort of option to boot into Linux while...

Now strictly Slackware here... believe it or not I started in similar fashion with Slackware on floppy disks, but was later drawn into RedHat and then Mandrake with all its GUI "goodness". A couple of years passed and...

With what you said regarding gparted being more powerful I went ahead and used it to resize and create my Linux partitions and everything is working! That is of course after following your precaution of creating a backup! Luckily it...

Unfortunately I don't have the computer in front of me... what I do remember from earlier was that fdisk and cfdisk, as well as Partition Magic all complained about the partitions where cfdisk and Partition Magic wouldn't even let me...

I'm trying to create some Linux partitions to install Slackware on my Lenovo W510 notebook and I'm getting some partition "errors" when using fdisk or cfdisk during the Slackware install. I have a feeling this is due to the...