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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can boot ubuntu 7.10 live from the cd on 3
different systems, all are laptops and all have realtech sound cards and all
produce choppy speech and all are otherwise very different, one is an alienware
area 51, another is a sony vaio and the last one is an acer aspire. The
alienware has a 2.16ghz core2 duo 2gb ram, and the vaio has a core2duo 1.66ghz
2gb ram. The acer has an AMD sempron 1.8ghz and 764mb ram. Anybody suspect
the choppy speech won't be the case after I install? I do.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I want to install on the alienware. I hear you can
shift existing partitions. So I don't have to screw up the alienware's xp
installation for which I don't have a replacement. I got to buy an external
drive for backups. So can I make xp's installation 50gb and leave the other 30gb
for ubuntu 7.10 during the installation of ubuntu, then tell ubuntu to install
on what it freed up by downsizing xp's partition? Oh and yes xp's partition is
small enough to be limited to 50gb. Last question, how do you start the
installation process accessibly from the live cd?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yeah I could go check out the docs but if someone
who has done it already can answer here it'll be easier.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've never used linux before. I'm pretty familiar
with windows in regard to general use.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aaron T. Spears</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Aaron T. Spears (valiant) <BR>EMail: <A
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<P>Beta Testing System Information: <BR>soney Vaio VGN250n . Intel core 2 duo
1.66ghz . 2,048 mb ddr2 SDRAM (667 mhz) . Intel graphics . Realtech audio
<BR>Toshiba 160gb 5,400 rpm hdd (Microsoft Windows Vista
business)</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>