It is ideal to attach USB drives to it for storage and backups. I would not dream of installing Windows on this machine.
It is great to finally have a love cost machine with a lot of RAM and no internal disk. I have seen these machines but have not got one yet. I would love to have J on such a machine. I have a small machine with Windows CE and J I have J and data on a separate storage card because the machine keeps losing all setup and data. 2008/5/8 bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The weird thing is that the Linux system was partitioned weirdly. The >> whole unit was supposed to be 20GB but it partition the system this way >> / - 2.7GB >> /swap - 1GB >> /home - 16GB >> >> The root and the swap was on /dev/sda that is a 4GB disk. It seems that >> the 16GB is on another disk device so installing Windows on it will take >> some forethought. >> > > Some said it has physically 2 ram cards (20GB=4GB+16GB), you can verify it > with > sudo parted, then print > or sudo gparted (if that has been installed), but don't corrupt the > partition table :-) > Actually having a separate partition for /home is not an uncommon practice > since you can install linux without worrying user data. > > Poking around it, my gut reaction was to install Ubuntu or Xubuntu on >> it. I believe that the screen is wide enough for work and my wife says >> that its soo kawaii ... but feels that the keyboard is so small even >> with her slim fingers. Out of the box, it worked with youtube and our >> favorite video streaming site http://www.watch-movies.net >> >> One final thing that made me happy was that it comes with a WindowsXP >> driver cd and a Linux System Recovery DVD disk. Meaning I can restore >> the OS if I muck it up. >> >> The only problem now is how to trick my wife into buying one. ;) >> > > There is a window version and it is cheaper than the linux version. > http://apcmag.com/windowsbased_eeepc_cheaper_than_linux_one.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Fornustekkum II, 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(")
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