Hmmm "This will wipe your drive." normally means what it says it wipes your drive to be honest if it was me then I would skip centos and go for the uhuntu, it's designed for the netbook and from what I hear i runs like the clappers on the netbook. Regards Per Qvindesland --- Original message follows --- SUBJECT: Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC?? FROM: Beartooth TO: "centos at centos.org" DATE: 03-05-2009 21:02 On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:30 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: [...] > I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu > 9.04 works really well on netbooks. > > It's here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook For the record, I went there, got that, burned it to a medium, and started an install. It came up with some startlingly strong caveat, to the effect that "This will wipe your drive." I took that to be so much more ubuntoid protecting me from myself, and went ahead, taking for granted that the installer would give me at least one choice which would preserve CentOS. Ba-aa-aadd move. It meant what it said : never gave me any other choice of anything, but went ahead and, sure enough, completely trashed my CentOS install. After that, the machine ran UNR and only UNR, even with thumbsticks in it. I finally ended up running DBAN against it -- and am still looking for other, *NON*-ubuntoid distros ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090503/94d30e6d/attachment-0005.html>