Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

[Igor <k.igor.k@gmail.com>]

Howdy, Jordi!

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/04/2008, Igor <k.igor.k@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I just purchased a Dell laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 preinstalled.
>  [snip]
>
> >  However, I prefer the Debian package selection and frequency of
>  >  updates (I usually run unstable).
>
>  I bought one of the same ones. I simply wiped the hard drive and
>  installed Debian on it. I managed to get everything working with
>  Debian, except suspend and hibernate (although I don't care too much
>  about that), although it took some tweaking. I bet if I tweaked it
>  some more, I could get suspend and hibernate too, but I haven't really
>  bothered.

The laptop is XPS M1330. It's been configured with the
hibernate/suspend, wireless networking, cpu frequency scaling, webcam,
and some other features working out of the box. I haven't tried the
fingerprint reader yet. I don't really want to spend time breaking and
restoring these features. That's why I'd prefer not to do a clean
wipe.

I've already changed the apt sources list to point to Debian
repositories. So far, none of the extra packages that I installed have
complained. But, I have yet to do a dist-upgrade, so I don't know if
that will introduce any problems (one step at a time :-).

I just noticed an unfortunate circumstance, though. Dell installed a
32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb
thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way
to migrate to a 64-bit environment. I'm not quite sure how to go about
that yet. So, suggestions still welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Igor