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The supplier should either give you a CD or make one available for download - otherwise you'd see headlines about the FSF and others writing letters to the supplier. But of course, check their websites to make sure.
You can definitely make a direct copy of the software and the MBR + partition table and restore later if you wanted to.
that took about five seconds to google...
then I believe it's safe to assume it's the same for the XP version of Acer's Aspire One...
yeah yeah, I know that netbooks are supposed to be ultra portable but a few grams of weight and a few more buck for more storage is what I'd go for. And I could always dualboot ...0
that took about five seconds to google...
then I believe it's safe to assume it's the same for the XP version of Acer's Aspire One...
Well, that assumption would be wrong; the usual practice these days is to give you no XP cd, but you can ring up MS and buy one (~$30). Of course that's for laptops with the full version of XP - I have no idea what the deal is with the cut-down version used on these eeePC types.
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