[nzlug] Migrating desktop

[Simon]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 16:14 +1200, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Simon wrote:
> > I have run across people who feel unable to move away from windows
> > because of the (perceived) risk of losing their settings.
> 
> Hah! They should be so lucky... every time I report a fault with my desktop
> system at work, the resultant migration from Windows to *Windows* loses all
> my settings. :-(

Windows people don't keep settings on migration? Is this general, or
just where you work? (Ammo... migrating to Vista loses you your settings
too.)

> 
> Has anyone successfully installed any flavour of Linux on a Dell D620? If so
> could you point me at a suitable ISO, along with any hints. (For the record,
> it runs quite nicely, just I can't make the Network drivers work with the
> ISO's I have to hand.)

Should work:
http://www.fzu.cz/~kolorenc/d620/
... rather old, but the ethernet went ootb with 2.6.16, in slackware
10.2; but this guy had Broadcom BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet and Intel 3945
wifi.

So I think you need to be more specific.