hii everybody,

first of all, im still new to linux OS. i have this laptop called ACER TravelMate
4150 " its really suck" the problem is that i colud only installed windows os and then after 2 months i decided to try linux " mandarke 10.1" which could not find my CDdriver at all and cos my labtop does not have floppy driver i could not procced any further then that. bytheway, the same installation cd work in my friend Pc

as a result, i bought an os installation DVD of MDK10.1 but i got the same result again " it is not able to find my CD driver and keep asking for floppy driver. anyway i decided to try another os but i do not know why i choose MANDRAKE again but this time "10.2" .

in the installation i had no probelm and evvery thing was fine but once i finised and wanted to boot from hd it hangs up and i never login to MDK 1.2 every time i had to plug out the power supply to restart the laptop to login to windows.

now, i have the same problem with SUSE 9.3 pro. i don't know what is the problem ??

lastly, linux live cd does not work too , it start then hangs up in dark screen and i can do nothing to restart except holding the off botton till it turns off.

so please guys any advices

thank you all

Try Debian / Gentoo. They worked for me! (4151NLCi)

Gentoo is not a very easy install as you may know.

Debian worked pretty mich out of the box. you might have to do some tweaking to get the wireless running

I have installed Startcom linux in my Acer Laptop 4150NLCi. Firstly I have many dificulties. At last I manage to install it. The guys at startcom were very helpfull. If you are interesed in installing this distro,See the thread


http://forum.startcom.org/viewtopic.php?t=216