[dundee] De Linuxing my laptop

[Paul Lancaster]

Digit (SG) wrote:
> "As a side note, vista will be completely wiped from the machine upon 
> return! *hurrrah!*"
>
See if you can get a rebate as you dont require the PC to be downgraded 
to Vista

Check with trading standards as PC's are upgradable, even MS OS's are 
upgradable - to what i'm not sure, they shouldn't be able to restrict 
your upgrades, any changes / upgrades you make wouldn't be covered by 
said warranty.
As the problem you have is hardware related - not software / OS, its the 
hardware thats not fit for purpose. I'm not sure, but if its under 3 
mths old can you ask for a new replacement. Before agreeing to a repair 
get in writing that if the fault reoccurs they will replace with new.

>    still.... its a nice feature its got to enable the user to use usb 
> flash drives as a RAM boost.   u can get 8 gig disks these days 
> right?    how many usb2 slots yer puter got?   ... it makes ya 
> wonder.   n i gotta ask the same question here... what's the linux 
> version of that?   i'm sure some smart open source hacker fanatic has 
> had his ram augmented just so for some time too now.
>
Apart from the usb transfer rate is slower than a hard drive, the 
limited number of read/write cycles a flash drive can perform and I need 
every usb port  i can get, with win xp/vista 32bit it cant address above 
3.2gb of ram.
If your prepared to sacrifice a mem device - you'd be better of buying 
an IDE 2 CF adaptor, put the root and boot on that, and maybe a second 
cf for swap.
Done that on my Amiga 1200, the miggy is booted and running in les than 
3 seconds, cant time it fully as the TFT monitor aint quick enough to 
boot and sync before the miggy's ready.

Paul