Acer netbooks

[Jim]

On 08/16/2009 07:32 AM, roland wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:45:40 +0200, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 16 August 2009 09:47:48 roland wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:11:48 +0200, Michael Cronenworth 
>>> <mike at cchtml.com>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 08/15/2009 09:27 PM, Ed Landaveri wrote:
>>> >> Please, is anyone running Fedora on any ACER netbook? If so can you
>>> >> recommend a model?
>>> >
>>> > I've installed F11 on a Acer Aspire One (Atom, XP edition) and it's
>>> > running fine.
>>>
>>> I have an acer one as well, and I tried to install F11 from an USB DVD
>>> player, WITHOUT success. It doesn't even start the installation.
>>>
>>> Can you tell me how you did this?
>>>
>> IIRC you have to go to F12 very quickly on boot (haven't got it in 
>> front of
>> me, so I can't check Fx) to get the usb player bootable.  After that 
>> it's a
>> perfectly normal install.
>>
> Strange,
>
> I did this and the installation stopped in the beginning.
>
> http://catbe.dyndns.org/fotos/acer_aspire_one.jpg
>
> shows you the picture of the screen.
>
> What could be the difference?
>
> Roland
>
On a couple of mini i installed on had trouble with video at boot, and I 
had to feed the following command to the kernel,   'nomodeset'  (without 
ticks)