Acer netbooks

[roland]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:22:16 +0200, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 August 2009 12:32:16 roland wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:45:40 +0200, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 16 August 2009 09:47:48 roland wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:11:48 +0200, Michael Cronenworth
>> >> <mike at cchtml.com>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>
Maybe indeed the DVD player is not the right one???

I did published the same link before.

roland