Hi, Don't know if you can boot from SD or CF on the netbooks, but another option that is possible is pxe boot. Tom -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Terry D. Cudney Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:43 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Accessibility of netbooks Hi Gene, thanks for your reply! Several people have subsequently commented about the option of 6- or 9-cell batteries for this model. If you have a second battery, are they easily swapped on this model? without disassembling anything? Previously, I believe, you said that you used debootstrap to do the installation. Just wondering why you had to do this, since debian can be installed directly from a usb stick on a regular i386 or a64, at least. Is there any reason you couldn't install debian on this little Acer directly from usb? You mentioned boot options in CMOS to boot from a usb stick... Is there any option to boot from an SD (or CF) drive on there? Still looking at the possibilities... Thanks, --terry On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:25:56AM -0500, Gene Collins wrote: > Hi Terry. Well, this laptop has no fan, so it can't be loud. The two > things I'm not happy with are battery life, only about two hours, even > when both cpus are throttled back to 800 mhz, and the fact that you have > to completely disassemble the machine in order to expand the memory. > Other than those two minor inconveneiences, I love the machine. > Obviously I wish it had a serial port for a hardware synth, but then I > knew before I bought it that it didn't. What turned me on to this > little box was that a friend of mine had one. Of course he isn't > running linux, but I liked the look of it. And when Staples had one on > for 300 bucks, I couldn't say no. > > I'm thinking about disabling the touch pad by taking the driver out of > the kernel, because it works to well. It's awfully easy to accidently > tap the touch pad with your thumb while you are typing, and have the > mouse move you to somewhare you didn't intend in gnome, but for the most > part, it just involves learning not to touch the touch pad. > > The bottom line is as I said, that I have a dual boot laptop, running > both windows xp and linux, and both the text console and gnome > environments are working just fine. I particularly like the fact that > my laptop hotkeys work under gnome, and the two built-in sd drives are > nice. The keyboard is small, but useable. I'd give the box 9 out of > 10. Hope this helps, have a good one. > > Gene > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Adam Myrow <myrowa at bellsouth.net> > >Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 3:23 PM > >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > >Subject: Re: Accessibility of netbooks > > > >On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > > >> Also you should update the journal commit time to reduce wear on the flash > >> disk, this can be done with ext3 by adding > >> commit=30 to the mount options for the root fs, or by installing laptop-tool > s > >> which can take care of this. > > > >I thought it was a good idea to format a flash disk as EXT2 rather than > >EXT3, in order to minumize the wear. As I understand it, the technology > >has a very limited life span compared to modern hard drives. This is the > >big thing that is keeping solid-state drives from replacing hard drives. > >Once this is solved, I believe that all computers will eventually go to > >some sort of solid-state drive. You eliminate moving parts, and I would > >think, should be able to eventually get tremendous speed out of such > >devices. > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-4949 SIP: 8978 at ekiga.net E-mail: terry at octothorp.org Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
