C90s and Linux

I love my C90 even now when it is in repair service. To shorten the waiting time I am interested if you had any experience installing Linux to the box?

It's name also reminds me of my first computer, roughly the same portable size.. C64

When I am getting it back I'll go with Slackware or Ubuntu.. will decide that then, but in the meanwhile I want to hear about your experience..

 

i have been working on mandriva 2008, installed the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com and compiz worked very well.... , i still have to try the x64 distribution to see how the performance gains..... i know ubuntu is very good also......but from all the distributions mandriva always seems to have the nicest desktop environment for me

 

My C90s wont even boot into the virtual Linux through the CD is this normal?

How can I fix this I was trying to use Ubuntu.

 

I might try linux soon.

Do I need to install linux or vista first to get the dual boot menu?

 

JCMS you should install vista first (on a different partition ), from what i know linux has less trouble identifying other OS's

D3M0N i don't know what you are talking about....maybe you should try other distributions....maybe it's a problem on the way that CD was recorded....maybe it was recorded without the boot sector...try other CD?..

 

I'll do that

I'm just gonna do a full backup before. Vista does not support FAT32 OTB and Linux does for NTSF

 

We'll the Ubuntu disk works fine in my desktop, but on my C90s I can get as far as the screen with the Ubuntu logo but when I click 'Install or Boot into Ubuntu' it will begin loading and then crash.