[wellylug] laptop advice sought

[Nick Jensen]

I just did something very similar on my Acer Aspire (can't remember the 
exact specs) from Dick Smith Electronics, and it works beautifully.

I suggest you use Ubuntu Linux, it's very user friendly, installs very 
easily (detecting the Windows partition and setting it up to dual boot using 
GRUB) and seems to be very happy on the laptop - knows about the battery, 
got the screen resolution settings bang on. It also handles some plug'n'play 
features well, so if I'm using the touchpad and then plug in a mouse, it 
will detect it immediately.

Nick


On 7/22/05, bob dugan <bob.dugan at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> I just bought my first laptop [acer aspire 3002LCi]. It has preinstalled 
> XP
> Home. The 40G hdd appears to have three partitions, two 18G fat32
> partitions and a smaller one containing "diagnostics".
> 
> I want to install Linux on the Laptop and retain the XP OS. I have done 
> this
> occasionally but not recently [windows 98] on a home PC.
> 
> I am wondering whether there are any odd hooks that I should be aware of.
> Also, whether one distro is better suited than the others.
> 
> I am not a programmer. Nor do I have any experience with XP or windows
> generally. For the last five or six years, all three of our family's PC 
> run
> only Linux [RH8.0, suse9.2, and debian potato].
> 
> Thanks for any advice
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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