Overview

Submitted by jpdugan on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 18:51

This tutorial is constructed from notes I wrote during the installation of Arch Linux on my younger sister's old Dell Inspiron laptop.

Some background information on this particular 600m, it was originally purchased in 2003. The RAM has been upgraded from the 512Mb it initially shipped with. The hard drive recently suffered a fatal crash that rendered it unable to write, however it was still read capable. I replaced the 40Gb factory model with a 120Gb unit.

Hardware Specifications

  • CPU : Intel Celeron M 1.5 GHz
  • Memory : 2 x 512 Mb 266MHz DDR SDRAM cards for 1GB of total RAM
  • PCMCIA : Type I and Type II card supported
  • Ethernet : 10/100/1000 Broadcom
  • Wireless : Intel
  • Bluetooth :
  • Modem :
  • Soundcard : Intel AC'97
  • Infrared :
  • Graphics : 4x AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 9400 (displays as 9000) 64MB Video RAM 1400 x 1050 SXGA+

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