Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Owain Clarke
I must admit my Eee 701 has been so much more enjoyable since I eventually managed to get Ubuntu running on it. Apart from anything else, the original setup is incredibly wasteful of space, e.g. Adobe Reader rather than Evince, and the lack of uptodate software is frustrating. No wonder the l

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Bond, Peter
Re 901 keyboard - Hmm. Turns out it wasn't a sw issue at all, so my astonishment at it needing an OS reinstall was justified. How can anyone return a supposedly repaired system without doing even the most trivial of tests??? Ho hum. Peter ***

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-26 Thread Bond, Peter
> I have both an eee 701 and aspire one 110. I found that the software > update > process was always fraud with danger. I used to watch the respective > forums > to see whether anyone had dared to upgrade and had encountered any > problems. > In the end I wiped both of their original distros and pu

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Wesemeyer
Hiya, > > I just sent mine back - alternate numeric keys had just stopped working, > which prevented me logging in. Collected Monday, returned today... And > the fix was "reinstall OS". I've yet to check that it is all OK, but > I'm a bit flabbergasted that Xandros + the updates they've issued c

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-26 Thread Bond, Peter
> Refering to the ASUS Eee PC 901 W006 Netbook, I have been asked: > If the linux that is loaded fouled up would it be easy to sort it > out? > > Does anyone know whether it comes with the necessary restore media? If > so, in > what form? Yes, there's 2 CDs. There's also a restore partition you

[Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-26 Thread Lisi
Refering to the ASUS Eee PC 901 W006 Netbook, I have been asked: If the linux that is loaded fouled up would it be easy to sort it out? Does anyone know whether it comes with the necessary restore media? If so, in what form? I think by "fouled up" he means an HDD crash, at which rate it can't