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[quote1232649263=71notout]
I guess that depends on whether you are chinese or not (888) 🙂Welcome Jayne – what’s the dog’s name?
[/quote1232649263]Hello 71notout.
The dog’s name is Badger.
He’s our border collie who we inherited from our vets after he’d had his left leg and shoulder shattered by being stepped on by a shire horse when he was only five weeks old !sad
The owner of the farm where he was born didn’t want to pay for his treatment and didn’t want him back because he wouldn’t be able to work and therefore wanted him euthanised ~:(
Our vets intervened and operated on him twice and then asked us to give him a home when he was 17 weeks old. We did and the farmer’s loss was our gain 🙂
Badger still goes to hydrotherapy once a week (hence the photo) and has grown into a brilliant dog who comes to work with me most days !amazed
I seriously considered the AA1, but for me the battery life and keyboard were the killers in deciding to buy the NC10.
Having bought it, my friend has an AA1 and I’ve found its trackpad is much more awkward than the NC10’s trackpad.
All in all, I’m really pleased with the NC10 – nothing else comes close 🙂
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Thanks alot Jayne-H
[/quote1232585863]Hi saurey
Any chance you could click on the ‘Thank Post’ link? I’d really appreciate your feedback 🙂
Many thanks
Jayne
The latest version of the BIOS is 04CA which may be downloaded here
I’ve installed this with no problems
Jayne
Personally, I wouldn’t bother 🙂
You can always recreate the Windows XP installation using the boot disk and WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the following guide:
In trying to triple boot XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu – I had scrambled the boot manager on my brand new Samsung NC10 and could only access 7 and Ubuntu.
By using the System Recovery Media (aka WinXP Home) and the System Software Media (aka drivers) CDs and this excellent guide, I was able to recreate my basic XP system.
I then reinstalled 7 and Ubuntu and everything is working like a dream.
Jayne
Thank you for your kind words, Britman.
When I’m not supporting Wales, Liverpool is my team, after all they play in red…..only don’t tell my better half who’s from Bolton :p
I’m a control freak.
I have removed everything, including the recovery partition, and installed a clean copy of Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu.
I just can’t help fiddling 😉
Just a quick ‘heads up’.
The USB boot drive is a ‘one off’ installation disk – if you want to do another clean installation from the USB stick you have to recreate it.
I only found this out, because I kept fiddling around trying to find the optimum installation for my triple boot NC10. Once used, the USB boot drive becomes a ‘recovery’ drive. So to do another clean boot, you have to recreate the boot drive using WinSetupFromUSB and your WinXPCD folder.
I agree with saurey – I loathe recovery partitions. I reclaimed the 6 GB wasted space from the recovery partition and I have allocated the disk space (all primary partitions) on my drive as follows:
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50 GB as partition hd 0,0 for WinXP
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50 GB as partition hd 0,1 for Windows 7
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3 GB as partition hd 0,2 for linux-swap
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and the remainder (about 46 GB) as partition hd 0,3 for Ubuntu
Works a treat for me 🙂
I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 – as part of a triple boot with Windows XP and 7 – and the only real problem I had was with the wireless adapter.
I solved this using this install wireless guide.
Jayne
Yes, I’ve done this using WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the following guide:
In trying to triple boot XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu – I had scrambled the boot manager on my brand new Samsung NC10 and could only access 7 and Ubuntu.
By using the System Recovery Media (aka WinXP Home) and the System Software Media (aka drivers) CDs and this excellent guide, I was able to recreate my basic XP system.
I then reinstalled 7 and Ubuntu and everything is working like a dream.
Please feel free to ask if I can help further.
Jayne
