I just did something very similar on my Acer Aspire (can't remember the
exact specs) from Dick Smith Electronics, and it works beautifully.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Nick<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">bob dugan</b> <<a href="mailto:bob.dugan@vuw.ac.nz">bob.dugan@vuw.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just bought my first laptop [acer aspire 3002LCi]. It has preinstalled XP<br>Home. The 40G hdd appears to have three partitions, two 18G fat32<br>partitions and a smaller one containing "diagnostics".<br><br>
I want to install Linux on the Laptop and retain the XP OS. I have done this<br>occasionally but not recently [windows 98] on a home PC.<br><br>I am wondering whether there are any odd hooks that I should be aware of.<br>
Also, whether one distro is better suited than the others.<br><br>I am not a programmer. Nor do I have any experience with XP or windows<br>generally. For the last five or six years, all three of our family's PC run<br>
only Linux [RH8.0, suse9.2, and debian potato].<br><br>Thanks for any advice<br><br>Bob<br><br><br>--<br>Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: <a href="mailto:wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz">wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz
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