netbook question

[ccb-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org (Charles Bennett)]

The family bought my wife a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 for Christmas:
 Intel Atom, 1GB RAM, 160GB disk, usb ports, video port, RJ45,
 broadcom wireless, SD Slot, (functional?) SIMCARD slot, webcam.

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-S10-2-10-1-Inch-Floral-Netbook/dp/B002P8M9PY

Came with Win7 Starter Ed. and "QuickStart" - a ROM linux thingy that
fires up in 0.10 seconds with a browser, skype, music player, picture
viewer, webcam/chat etc.

I was paranoid about going to dual boot for fear of losing QS but since
there's a recovery partition I figured I'd have at it.  No CDROM drive
so I used my trusty stick version of gparted-live to move partitions
around, being careful to shrink the W7 part without destroying the
recovery partition.

After partition wrangling everything was continuing to work fine.

Installed Fedora12 from Live CD.  No worries.  I think I had to yank the
BCM43xx firmware blob off the Windows partition to get the wireless
working.  No worries.  Webcam was seen by Cheese, no worries.  Having
updated the MBR with Grub had no ill effect on QS...  that's apparently
100% ROM.

So for at least the Lenovo netbook, dual boot was cake.  Only thing we
haven't messed with is the SIM stuff...  I'm not sure if our rev has it
jacked in.



ccb


On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 07:42 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I was just asked if it were possible to dual boot a netbook. Not owning
> of having used one I really could not answer the question asked. My gut
> feel is that generically yes, but that the netbook would have to boot
> from an external USB device (and since I know that is possible based on
> installfest experience), is it possible assuming enough HD storage to
> partition the HD (or SSD) to have both Windows 7 and Linux. (Not
> something that I would recommend).
> 
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