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

2013-08-05 Thread Richard Carter
Thanks for your comments gents. I had a rush of blood to the brain and splashed out for the acer v7 before I had a chance to read the comment from Gustin and Andrew: it has lots of RAM, a "hybrid" drive (a 24gb ssd portion and a 500gb hdd portion) and wasn't too expensive. My plan is to replace w

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

2013-08-05 Thread Andrew Robinson
The 24 gb drive typically won't be seen by the bios. Thus you normally wouldnt be able to install anything to it, unleas rhere is some sort of hack to enable it. Most if the Kingston drives used in this sort of situation are hard coded to not be able to be used for anything aside from caching. I