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

Daniel Hodul, Ph.D. dhodul at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 12 19:49:48 PDT 2005


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>
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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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