Go to http://www.geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/ for more
instructions on using Dell Inspiron 1100 with GNU/Linux. 

ISO file in here contains updated BIOS A31 which fixes problem with
video memory being set to 1MB (you can set it to 8MB in BIOS now).

It's based on 
  http://www.geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/bootcd_A29_1100.zip

Also note that there's another BIOS update from Dell:
  ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/I1100A32.txt (revision history)
  ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/I1100A32.exe (update)

December 2004, all rights reversed -- Danilo Segan <danilo@kvota.net>