Booted Linux this morning! Fedora 9.
Here's how I got it to work on my Vostro 200:
First, I went to pendrivelinux.com, navigated to a list of USB bootable Linux.
Skipped right threw the major ones, breezed down to "Fedora LiveUSB".
~Honesty time: Spent all night trying the others~
Nice little program that takes your
This was particularly nice for me, since I had a 2 Gb USB drive without a case that I've just inherited (complicated).
I let the program do it's thing, turned off my PC, adjusted BIOS to boot from removable drive, and...
Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
More specifically,
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
after a little google and creative thought, I removed everything I could from my PC; not much. the CD drive, the card reader, and the hard drive.
Now at this point I had little hope, but I turned it on, and...
OMG I HAS LINUX!!!!! Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
apparently, the distrobutions I had been trying lacked the drivers for SATA stuff.
EDIT: I more inclined it was the proprietary card reader that it couldn't handle
Still figuring just how much I can put back, and loving my new Linux.
