On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:48 PM, andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Acer is shipping laptops with no recovery solution as standard? That sounds > well dodgy to me. > > Andrew.
In the last couple of weeks I've bought two cheap ($399) laptops (Compaq, Acer). Neither came with a recovery DVD, but both came with a program to create a recovery DVD. I haven't tested recovery with that DVD for either. I found a GNU Parted live CD image (google helped) and quite painlessly shrank the NTFS partition on the Compaq to make room for an OpenSolaris partition. It installed just fine but I didn't get wifi to work. That machine went back due to problems with the power connector. Huge kudos go out to Office Depot. They have a 14 day no-restocking fee return policy and gave me no grief for returning a box on day 14. They only asked whether it was defective so they knew whether it needed to go back to HP or not. The Acer (Extensa 4420) came with a 10 Gig hidden partition, a 50 GB C drive, and a 50 GB D drive. It seems as though everything important to windows is in the C drive and the D drive is the default location for Acer's backup utility for backups. Once I get a chance the D drive will go to better use. My first boot of the build 95 snapshot of OpenSolaris says that I will need to do battle with networking (wifi and wired) as well as sound. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
