[clug-talk] Installing Linux on Acer V7

2013-08-03 Thread Richard Carter
I'm considering buying an Acer V7-581-6489 laptop which has 2 drives; a 500GB HDD and a 24GB SSD. I want to get rid of Windows 8 and install Debian and/or Ubunu. Has anyone had any experience doing an install on a computer of this kind? What I would really like to do is replace the 24GB SSD wit

Re: [clug-talk] Installing Linux on Acer V7

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Robinson
The 24gb ssd is typically going to be a cache drive. It may not be possible to install anything on it, this will be a bios limitation. In terms of replacing the drive in some cases the caching ssd drives have different mounting holes than standard msata drives. That is the issue I've got with me