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I purchased Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 which came pre-installed with Windows 8 64bit version, I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 64bit.As I'm a student, I have to do some work in Linux OS. So I asked Dell Customer Care about how can I dual boot Windows and Linux OR how can I install Linux in my laptop?

Has any one successfully booted a new 2710 with a live linux cd\dvd to access the installed hdd; ifso what works? TIA

Subject says it all, I think. Preferably Ubuntu, but pretty much anything would work. TIA. BH.

Hello Everyone,I have a Dell Inspiron 14z 5423 Ultrabook. I have Windows 7 installed in it. I am trying to install RHEL 6 alongside windows. I have installed RHEL on most of the older PCs but this one is the new technology with 32 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD with hybrid technology. I could not figure out to

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me with an issue with KVM and ISCSI. If we restart a controller on our EqualLogic SAN or there are any network interruptions on the storage network (e.g. we move a member out of the pool) , KVM guests throw a wobbler and their files system

Dear Dell, I have just replaced my old Dell Dimension with a new XPS 8500 at great cost. On my old Dimension I was able to load Linux on an entirely separate disk. When I wanted to boot into Linux, I was able to change the boot priority and boot into Linux. However to my dismay I can't do this on m

Hello, Dell installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 on my Dell Precision T7600 workstation, but I cannot make the YUM package manager work. For example, if I run "sudo yum install gimp" the result is"Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-managerUpdating certificate-b

I have purchased an Inspirion 17R 5720. Does any one know if I will experience any problems if I install Linux Mint 14 on it? 

I just bought a new Inspiron One 2330 with the intent to load Quantal Quetzal on it, dual-booting with Dell's Windows 8 installation. I didn't foresee a problem, since I already knew it handled EFI fine, and had read that 12.10 even had an MS-signed preloader to allow systems locked to Secure Boot.

Hi all. I have a dell inspiron N411Z (or N14z). I have installed as sole OS on the laptop ubuntu 12.04. Present kernel is 3.2.0-30, gnome 3.4.2. The details of my BIOS are: A02 10/19/2011 I have logged in the support web-page of DELL, and after providing my service tag, I was re-directed to

3-4 months ago I bought a Dell Inspiron N5040 notebook with Ubuntu 10.10 pre-installed. In general I'm very happy with it since everything works OK and I don't feel sorry for migrating from windows to Linux OS. But the only issue I came across lately is that Ubuntu 10.10 is coming to EOL on 10-12 a

hi there the problem that i have is that my norton 360 is conflicting with system mechanic. i was updating norton then i had a problem instaling the updated version with norton so i contacted norton support and they were saying that system mechanic conflicts with norton 360. i got system mechanic th

I have a concern about installing Ubuntu on the X51. I'm not sure if it's the harddrive format or the X51 A02 BIOS version, but once I try to install linux via live USB stick it doesnt' work. And as for live CD I have the CD popping out of the disc issue. I've googled Alienware X51 + Ubuntu, but I d

Hi, I've tried to install Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Debian and Gentoo on my brand-new XPS 17 L702X, with no success. I've tried installing from CD, DVD, USB (both unetbootin and Universal USB Installer). Specifically, Linux Mint 12 (DVD, 64-bit) and Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit) via USB fail

Dear all, I recently ordered a Dell XPS 15 and I want to install Linux on it. However when I look in the drivers section of the Dell website I see a lot of support and drivers for XPS running on all versions of Windows, however I cannot seem to find any drivers for running on Linux? Does this mean

Hi, I have tried with: Ubuntu 11.10, Kubuntu 11.04, Lubuntu 11.04 and Linux Mint 11. All with CD distros. I always got problems with boot. But I was able to install RedHat family: Scientific Linux and Fedora 15. Does any of you why? Thank you in advance, Carlos.

Hej, Jeg har en Inspiron 1525, jeg kunne godt tænke mig at få den opdateret til den nyeste software. Hvordan gør jeg det?

Hi, I've been offered a Dell 'XPS 8300' Desktop at work to replace my faithful but limited Optiplex. I need to know if the hardware is supported by Linux. I've checked places like the Ubuntu Hardware Certification site and the Dell Linux wiki, but the XPS 8300 seems too new to be mentioned on eithe

I am running windows 7 x64 Ultimate and have installed VirtualBOX. I installed an XP virtual machine and everything is fine but the UBUNTU machine does not fill up the screen. They have the same Video Settings. The system is an XPS 8300. Any ideas to as how to make Ubuntu take up the full

I am Running a factory installed Ubuntu 8.04.2 on a mini 10. This makes the computer pretty useless for playing CDs. The problem is described in these links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+bug/455461 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650991 My computer has repl