[CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

Fri Jul 28 12:14:49 UTC 2017
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 07/28/2017 07:04 AM, wwp wrote:
> Hello Johnny,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:44:33 -0500 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/28/2017 05:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 07/27/2017 12:25 PM, wwp wrote:  
>>>> Hello there,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've just got a Dell XPS 15 (9590) at work and need to set up a stable
>>>> GNU/Linux system on it. I thought of CentOS7, but.. obviously its
>>>> kernel can't run on this hardware.
>>>>
>>>> What would you recommend? Waiting for CentOS8 is not an option unless
>>>> it's a question of few weeks. Are there respins of the CentOS7 DVDs w/
>>>> more top-recent kernels? I'm know of Fedora 26 or course, and not
>>>> willing to switch to Ubuntu 16.10 at all.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>
>>> I have an experimental 4.9.x kernel stream for x86_64.  Let me see if I
>>> can create a live-dvd that boots with that kernel and installs.  
>>
>> 4.9 kernel tree for CentOS-7 that is.
>>
>> It lives here:
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/experimental/x86_64/
>>
>> (currently pushing a 4.9.39 kernel there)
> 
> Thanks, if I succeed in installing a C7, I'll make use of it and
> provide feedback.
> 

hmmm .. the live ISO fails to boot .. there is not squashfs module ..
let me see if I can fix that.

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