Schadenfreude » m1530 http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SSD in the M1530 http://www.ralree.com/2009/03/28/ssd-in-the-m1530/ http://www.ralree.com/2009/03/28/ssd-in-the-m1530/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:37:28 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/?p=22471 Today, I finally set up my new OCZ SSD hard drive:

All I had to do to convert my M1530 running Ubuntu over was use the cp command:


mkdir /mnt/root && mount root_partition /mnt/root
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/target
cp -a /mnt/root/ /mnt/target/

You might also have to repeat for other partitions like boot and home. cp -a is awesome. It does exactly what you need for this process. Now my computer runs perfectly (other than me having to tweak grub a little for the right boot options). The only issue is you will have to move the contents of /mnt/target/root in this case to /mnt/target after this is done, as there’s an issue with dotfiles being copied in the root directory of the source.

]]> http://www.ralree.com/2009/03/28/ssd-in-the-m1530/feed/ 0 Leopard on a Dell M1530 http://www.ralree.com/2008/04/01/leopard-on-a-dell-m1530/ http://www.ralree.com/2008/04/01/leopard-on-a-dell-m1530/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:58:00 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.info/2008/04/01/leopard-on-a-dell-m1530 Somehow, I managed to get Leopard installed and running on my Dell M1530 using the Kalyway disc. It barely works. Here is a list of deficiencies:

  • No Wireless (Intel 3945)
  • No Ethernet (Marvell Yukon 88E8)
  • No Sound

And here are some things that seem to work:

  • Bluetooth
  • Firewire
  • Nvidia Graphics using NVInstaller .41 @ 1680×1050

Here are some nice pictures:







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