John wrote:
> Oh, what happened with the Bios, did you install Ubuntu on it? Mine
> was bought in Curries, I paid for an extended warante, have had good
> responses before with their warante.
>
> John
>
> Larry Wright wrote:
>> Larry Wrote :
>> Bought one Tesco at Very good price
>> 6 weeks in Fa
Oh, what happened with the Bios, did you install Ubuntu on it? Mine was
bought in Curries, I paid for an extended warante, have had good
responses before with their warante.
John
Larry Wright wrote:
Larry Wrote :
Bought one Tesco at Very good price
6 weeks in Failed with bios fault
still
Larry Wrote :
Bought one Tesco at Very good price
6 weeks in Failed with bios fault
still trying to get fixed they had a thirty day
limit on normal guarantee so beware Tesco's
John wrote:
>
> Michael G Fletcher wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Robert Longstaff
>> wrote:
>>
I jus
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Robert Longstaff
wrote:
I just wondered, looking at this, it could be more complicated than I
imagined it. Does anybody live near central London, or within travel
distance that could possibly be prepared to help me
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Robert Longstaff
wrote:
>> I just wondered, looking at this, it could be more complicated than I
>> imagined it. Does anybody live near central London, or within travel
>> distance that could possibly be prepared to help me out with this? I'd
>> be willing to pay.
>
> I just wondered, looking at this, it could be more complicated than I
> imagined it. Does anybody live near central London, or within travel
> distance that could possibly be prepared to help me out with this? I'd
> be willing to pay.
Is there a LUG meeting going on anywhere near you? It may
Dean Sas wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 13:23, John wrote:
I got my little netbook, but I managed to find one in Curries instead,
slightly different specs, but the same as the one I mentioned. Acer Aspire.
If I install Ubuntu eee, via the stick, is it an easy i
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 13:23, John wrote:
> I got my little netbook, but I managed to find one in Curries instead,
> slightly different specs, but the same as the one I mentioned. Acer Aspire.
> If I install Ubuntu eee, via the stick, is it an easy install, and will it
> install over the software
Hi everybody,
sorry its taken me so long to get back to you. I really appreciate all
the messages, they have been a big help.
I got my little netbook, but I managed to find one in Curries instead,
slightly different specs, but the same as the one I mentioned. Acer
Aspire.
It has Linux Lite
Dave Morley wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:04 +, Robert Longstaff wrote:
I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
work on it, and how would I install it?
I have an Aspire One
John,
Here is a copy of my posting to this forum on 14 Nov 2008. I am still of the
opinion that this is a brilliant little machine :-
"Rob,
You may remember replying to a post of mine last week about the Acer.
I
bought mine from a Tesco store for the same price as Tesco direct,
although it is
On 02/02/2009 17:27, Alec Wright wrote:
> I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive
> looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a
> MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe
> pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The
Contact your Trading Standards Department, you are not expected to be out of
pocket due to defective goods. Michael
--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Alec Wright wrote:
> From: Alec Wright
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk"
> Date: Mo
urner :
> John,
>
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
>
> James.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: John
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook
UNetbootin works fine but if you're able to run Ubuntu elsewhere, go to
System/Administration/Create a USB startup disk - with that you'll need a
USB memory stick of at least 1 Gig and a linux ISO image. Once done, reboot
(change bios if needed and from that point on it's just like using a live
boo
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:04 +, Robert Longstaff wrote:
> > I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
> > to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
> > work on it, and how would I install it?
>
> I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm ve
> I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
> to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
> work on it, and how would I install it?
I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately
wiped out Linpus and put generic
On 02/02/2009 14:02, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote:
> John,
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
> James.
>
From what I understand they have a MIPS CPU (which rules out running
Ubuntu) and it doesn't support things like Flash properly. To be honest
I'd ra
2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner
> John,
>
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
>
> James.
>
I have played with one of these, a branded Elonex one and the quality is
terrible. The keyboard is just 'too' small. At least with an Acer or Asus
netbook you can
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:02 +, Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote:
> John,
>
> Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux
> on!
>
After a lot of research I discovered that these are arm based and no
good for any of the mobile versions of Ubuntu. The acers are about
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 13:56 +, John wrote:
> I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good
> specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it
> hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If
> anybody knows of a notebook that has one
John,
Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on!
James.
- Original Message -
From: John
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.
I finally found a relatively cheap
I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good
specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it
hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody
knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know?
The specs are
Acer Aspire O
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