On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
I'm a little unsure about wiping the whole disk. The Aspire One has XP on it, with a 4Gb hidden partition which contains the factory image. I could resize the main XP partition and create two more for Linux and /home, but I don't know if XP or GRUB will play nicely. I could wipe the whole lot and be rebellious and crazy, but if I have a warranty issue I would like to put it back to factory state to avoid any accusations of "It's broke because you put Linux on it".
I don't know if Acer have followed same strategy as the Asus 901 EEE... On the 901 it has 20Gb SSD, but as far as I can determine that is split into two logically, if not physically, distinct drives. A faster 4Gb partition for the "root" / partition (ASUS-PHISON SSD SOQ2882269) and and a 20gb (ASUS-PHISON SSD SOQ2882288) slower /home partition. ie. The partition is not hidden and not a factory image in the sense that you can "reset" to factory defaults. To recover the "factory" image on my Asus, I have to insert CD into desktop, pull off iso, use unetbootin-eee-linux to load it onto USB drive, boot from USB drive. (I haven't tried reverting yet, but I believe thats the general idea.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [email protected] New Zealand
