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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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