Images available?

[jakev383]

I bought a Dell Inspiron E1505 last year and over the course of a year gotten everything to work decently on it. Will the images of the loads installed on the Dell models be available for download by the rest of us, without having to buy a new one?
Just curious. Would be nice if I decided to start clean if I could just throw the restore CD in and start up with a 90%-the-way-I-want-it machine.
Thanks.

[DC@DR]

I doubt that there're such images. :-)

[ageilers]

I am almost positive you would not see an image from Dell. I can't imagine it would be all that different from a basic install anyway from what I have read.

[GabrielDunn]

Well from what I've read the desktops have the disk image in a separate partition for recovery, and the laptops come with a physical disk.

Since this is open source is there an issue with people sharing that cd? I for one am in a similar situation where I've played with ubuntu enough to get it running fine, but I still have the broadcom issue with my wireless and I'm hoping the dell flavored fiesty might have a driver on it that solves my issue.

[jakev383]

Bingo. That's what I'm talking about. I was optimistic that Dell would release the image (seems like it could be a cheaper option that including a disk, just giving a download that is).
I'm still on Edgy, just because it took me 2 weeks and a different wireless card to get wireless working on my laptop - not to mention little things like getting the Intel915 resolution right (1680x1050). If the Feisty (Fiesty, whatever) install, especially the one used on the Dell computers, just made all this work then I would be a happy camper. I know, this is very self-serving....

[Jeroen Vernooij]

Well I don't even need such image, I just throw in a feisty disc into my E1505, install it and install 915resolution (won't even be needed into gutsy thanks to -intel driver instead of i810!!) and assign the multimedia keys, and everything works..!

[GabrielDunn]

Well you're the lucky one. My wireless card doesn't work not with the extracted driver, ndiswrapper or fwcutter. So Hopefully this image can finally get me up to full speed. I got everything else working just fine, but the wireless has prevented me from ditching xp on my laptop. And Dual booting is lame.

Anyone have an image?

[Jeroen Vernooij]

Well you're the lucky one. My wireless card doesn't work not with the extracted driver, ndiswrapper or fwcutter. So Hopefully this image can finally get me up to full speed. I got everything else working just fine, but the wireless has prevented me from ditching xp on my laptop. And Dual booting is lame.

Anyone have an image?

An image won't help you, since the ubuntu dell laptops have intel3945 wireless cards, which you obviously don't have (I do). You should open a new topic in the networking section; good luck!

[GabrielDunn]

Been there, done that. But thanks. Just hoping dell woudl step up and support their own hardware now.

[jakev383]

I had the 3945 card in mine, and could never get it to work in Edgy. I ended up buying a DellTrueMobile soemthing-or-other off of Ebay and getting that running under ndiswrapper. I tried the Fedora7 live CD this morning, and popped the 3945 back in just to see and it worked out of the box under the live cd. Didn't try sound, which was the other thing I could never to get working in Fedora (but worked in Ubuntu).
Oh well. Maybe I'll image my drive this weekend and try a Fiesty install, or maybe even a Fedora.
Thanks!