Re: Tablet

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:16:08 -0600
"Ed Heron" <[email protected]> wrote:

>   With the recent talk about Android on everything, [...]

For practical purposes, Android assumes a phone environment.
I do not see it viable on anything that resembles a computer,
even with a touchscreen, unless Google puts more effort into it.
They can certainly do it, just did not thus far.

>   I'm thinking of trying to put Ubuntu on it.

Fedora or Ubuntu, or any other decent distro would be more
useful to you, I suspect.

>  It came with a 6G hd, but 
> I've got a 30G drive from a dead laptop.  If I hang the hd on another 
> computer with a PATA to USB converter (I already have), I could put a 
> bootable partition on it with grub or syslinux, then copy the install files. 
> During installation, I would skip partitioning and formatting.  (sounds like 
> something I should document, eh?)

Another easy option would be to install elsewhere, then move
the disk with installed OS.

-- Pete
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