[NBLUG/talk] Linux on an Acer 3502WLCI laptop

[MPoole]

What linux things have to happen?  Did you consider a 'coLinux' option? 
That way you can have windows AND linux at the same time on the same 
machine.

I can help with that if you are curious to try it out.

Mark Poole


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Hodul, Ph.D." <dhodul at hotmail.com>
To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, 
etc." <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Linux on an Acer 3502WLCI laptop


> Hi Bob, Thanks for the suggestion.  I think I just need the confidence 
> to
> proceed.  Having screwed up once before, I'm a bit cautious, but I 
> think if
> I back up my drivers, I should be OK, no matter what.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Blick" <bblick at sonic.net>
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to 
> questions,etc."
> <talk at nblug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Linux on an Acer 3502WLCI laptop
>
>
>> > I wonder if anyone has had experience installing Linux on an Acer 
>> > Aspire
>> > 3502WLCI ?  I tried once before with a diferent version and lost 
>> > windows
>> > xp when I partitioned my HD.
>>
>> I have no experience with that laptop. But with my newish Dell, I put 
>> the
>> SuSE CD in, booted, clicked "new installation" and it showed a list 
>> of
>> suggestions, one was "resize the disk, install Linux and dual boot 
>> with
>> Windows". Clicked that, it resized and installed Linux and gave me a
>> dual-boot menu. Just like that (Well, it took an hour, but there was 
>> no
>> chance to screw it up by doing the default suggestions).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
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