Hi all,

From Kansas, going through a votech class to be a electrician. i bought a Acer Aspire one 11.6 for taking notes, internet, ect... and i just wanted one. my biggest problem with it is the vista basic. I dont mind xp so much as its what our desk top has run for a while.
I've already failed at making a live disk for my desk top. I made one of ubuntu and kubuntu neither will boot on start up, but if i open them it gives me the option to install. a friend gave me a ubuntu live disk he made and it worked. So seeing how i screwed up a simple disk i'm leery of partitioning my HD and adding it along with windows as my friend did. our printer is also listed as a paper weight i guess, so i still need xp. That and the wife dosent like me messing with things to much.
I was hoping to find several posts about how my acer model had no or very few glitches when linux was applied. so ill be poking my nose around hoping someone else is or has done this and is happy with it
Mike Honaker

Hi and welcome to LQ Mike, I hope you can find the information you want without getting into trouble with the wife. If you are not sure see if you can get the friend to help with an installation. You may need to change or press a key on start up to change your bios boot order where the cd/dvd will boot first in order to use the live cd.

well his disk boots up, but mine dosent so i can only assume i didnt do something right when i made the disks.
Thanks for the welcome
Mike Honaker

The most common problem people have is not writing to the cd as an iso image.

well that might be the problem. I really dont know how to do that, guess its time to do a search of the forums.

I can not help you, it is an option in your cd/dvd burning software.