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BigWarpGuy

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Dell Inspiron 9 and eCS?
« on: 2008.09.17, 01:30:35 »
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

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http://i.dell.com/resize.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9-hero-295/295

Would it be easier to install eCS on the Inspiron 9 than the EEE PC?  ???

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Re: Dell Inspiron 9 and eCS?
« Reply #1 on: 2008.09.17, 01:33:36 »
Doubt it. It's going to need the USB finagling to install just like all the other netbooks without IDE CD-ROM drives.

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Re: Dell Inspiron 9 and eCS?
« Reply #2 on: 2008.09.17, 02:19:36 »
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Would it be easier to install eCS on the Inspiron 9 than the EEE PC?  ???

It would be "neat" if OEMs like HP, Dell, Lenovo.... start talking to the eCS folks (or vice-versa) about getting OS/2-eCS to run easily on their machines.  8)

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Re: Dell Inspiron 9 and eCS?
« Reply #3 on: 2008.09.17, 16:00:10 »
Without a cd drive, it would not be easy to install eCS on them but I was thinking that the Dell Inspiron 9 would less difficult (not as hard) to install eCS onto.  ;D I am still planning on trying to install eCS 2.0 onto my EEE PC when it becomes available to non-soft sub people. I am trying to upgrade the memory and increasing the size of the SSD by adding another one (in the mini-pci-e port on the bottom of my EEE PC - I seem to have the rarer 701a which has an open connector for it).  8)

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Re: Dell Inspiron 9 and eCS?
« Reply #4 on: 2008.09.17, 19:54:05 »
Without a cd drive, it would not be easy to install eCS on them but I was thinking that the Dell Inspiron 9 would less difficult (not as hard) to install eCS onto.  ;D I am still planning on trying to install eCS 2.0 onto my EEE PC when it becomes available to non-soft sub people. I am trying to upgrade the memory and increasing the size of the SSD by adding another one (in the mini-pci-e port on the bottom of my EEE PC - I seem to have the rarer 701a which has an open connector for it).  8)

I guess that I would keep an an eye and an ear open to know when and if there is going to be a selling off at Lehman's (Wall Street) and pick up one or two machines from this auction then I can attempt to get eCS running on these.  8) ;) 8)