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Installing drivers

Asked by crystalm

I am working on some DELL computers that were donated to a private school. They were donated by a branch of the military and therefore had to be wiped completely clean. This means they are blank...no operating system or anything. As suggested by someone, I am attempting to install the Ubuntu operating system. My question is .....when I researched how to reinstall Windows 2000 Professional, the Dell representative said I also had to install 4 drivers: chipset, video, network, and audio and that these were to be installed after I installed Win 2000 Prof. Since I am not installing Win 2000 Prof and want to install Ubuntu, do I still need to install the drivers? I am assuming that I do. I installed Ubuntu and attempted to install the drivers but of course it couldn't because they were .exe files. So I tried to install them with WINE and it gives me the following message:
The Intel(R) chipset software installation utility requires a supported chipset platform running on a supported operating system. Check the system requirements section of the README.TXT file for more information.

In the README.TXT file it states:

2. One of the following operating systems must be
    fully installed and running on the system
    before installing this software:

    Windows* 98SE 4.10.2222 (Original Release)
    Windows* Me 4.90.3000 (Original Release)
    Windows* 2000 5.00.2195 (Original Release)
    Windows* XP 5.10.2600 (Original Release)

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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Best Murali Krishna Marimekala (murali-marimekala) said : 		#1

Hi crystalm,

As per my knowledge, if you install Ubuntu there is no need to install drivers separately. Sometimes for few specific hardware there may not be drivers. So, you need to request us in forum or google it. You will surely get it.

No need to install Win 2000 pro along with drivers for your system to function. If your requirement is to install Ubuntu on all PC's, then go ahead by clean formatting and installing Ubuntu on all PC's.

Once after installing Ubuntu, as your friend told about chipset, video, network, and audio drivers, if you will surely find no problem with them. If you find any problem like no audio or no video just let us know. We will help you out.

--Murali

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crystalm (dmealor) said : 		#2

Thanks Murali Krishna Marimekala, that solved my question.