buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Jan 22 15:41:15 EST 2009


On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>   
>> Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
>> could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
>> good resolution.
>>     
>
>   Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
> flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM "live" system?
>   
The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is to is to open up 
the iso, copy in the appropriate drivers or packages, then make a new 
iso, and either burn a new CD or USB. You could simply grab the 
appropriate .rpm or .deb files to install by hand. Knoppix has a good 
tutorial on how to customize, but since you don't know the target 
system, just copy in the appropriate packages and install them after boot.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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