Re: Acer netbooks

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On Sunday 16 August 2009 12:32:16 roland wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:45:40 +0200, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 August 2009 09:47:48 roland wrote:
> >> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:11:48 +0200, Michael Cronenworth
> >> <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On 08/15/2009 09:27 PM, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> >> >> Please, is anyone running Fedora on any ACER netbook? If so can you
> >> >> recommend a model?
> >> >
> >> > I've installed F11 on a Acer Aspire One (Atom, XP edition) and it's
> >> > running fine.
> >>
> >> I have an acer one as well, and I tried to install F11 from an USB DVD
> >> player, WITHOUT success. It doesn't even start the installation.
> >>
> >> Can you tell me how you did this?
> >
> > IIRC you have to go to F12 very quickly on boot (haven't got it in front
> > of
> > me, so I can't check Fx) to get the usb player bootable.  After that
> > it's a
> > perfectly normal install.
>
> Strange,
>
> I did this and the installation stopped in the beginning.
>
> http://catbe.dyndns.org/fotos/acer_aspire_one.jpg
>
> shows you the picture of the screen.

It says 'you may safely reboot your system' - did it leave you with a good 
running system, presumably your old one?
>
> What could be the difference?
>
Dunno.  Two things come to mind - a different model of USB dvd-player (don't 
know whether a hardware problem there is possible), or a different chipset 
somewhere in the hardware even though it claims to be the same model.

Did you have a thread anywhere with a subject of failed install, and include 
that screenshot?  I know there have been some install problems with some 
hardware, but haven't been following those threads.

Anne
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