<div dir="ltr">(yes sorry I missed the 'install' argument in my command line statement, a thousand apologies)<br><br>I will have to try out Debian in vmware or something... Only reason I shy away is I have had Nvidia driver grief with Ubuntu, although that may have been Nvidia's problem.<br>
<br>I believe the default desktop environment is still Gnome - Anyone using compiz fusion and emerald for their desktop manager in Debian? - that would convince me to switch.<br><br>Honestly, I like yum, and it would be hard to part from it.<br>
<br>----------------------<br><br>As for the HDD install --><br><br>" I removed the HD, put it into my<br>
Thinkpad, installed Ubuntu, and put the HD back into the tablet."<br><br>I tried installing the operating system itself as Ben Rousch suggested (thanks Ben - good name) <br>And I so intelligently wasn't thinking about the fact that the installer would create a mount point for the physical drive as /dev/sda (because I had it connected through usb) -- So when I swapped the hard disk back into the laptop grub complained it couldn't find /dev/sda - because /dev/sda was now /dev/hda <br>
I'm don't know enough about grub or the underlying system to know what would need to be changed to point grub back to /dev/hda ?<br>Would the grub conf just need to be edited or anything to do with initrd need to be changed? or is it not worth it, and I should figure out another way?<br>
I'm sure it can be done after all, everything is just > files <br>:)<br><br>Thanks in advance!<br></div>