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On Saturday 08 November 2008 11:04, Vivi Griffin wrote: > Hi, > > I just had to share with all of you my joy at getting my newish acer aspire > laptop (2920) working on Mandriva with an XP virtual box. I am especially > happy because it was so straightforward and also because I was not > expecting to be able to do this at all! > > When I got my laptop, I was very happy with it but, very disappointed to > find out that Vista was installed - I didn't really want it. I used Vista > for a while but, really came to loathe it. It was getting slower and slower > to boot. It was incompatible with most of my software and just kept > crashing. Due to it's warranty, I couldn't re-install on the existing hard > drive so, Phil gave me another drive and suggested I gave Linux a try > before I threw the laptop out of the window. > > However, I did some research on the net and it turned out that even > downgrading it to XP looked like being quite a nightmare involving the use > of chinese drivers because Acer had only provide English ones for Vista. I > figured that if XP wouldn't run on it, then I had no chance with Linux. > But, how wrong I was! I'm not sure any hardware would require language specific drivers! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html