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1. ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 MOVIE
2. ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 INSTALL
3. ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 UPGRADE
4. ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 ISO
5. ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 BLUETOOTH

If you succeed, please throw a comment here? Hope this sheds even a bit of light to your quest. Googling “windows on external drive” will give you few good starting directions. WinXP is not designed to be booted/ran from external drives, thus making the installation and using it hard, to say at least. Has anyone idea what type of partition i need to create and if its even possible.ĭidn’t even bother to try out WinXP installation to external disk, as it’s a serious pain with capital P.

ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 INSTALL

The hard drive was formatted using windows xp on a different computer prior to trying this install on the ZG5. I Did try it out and it says it is the Wrong type of partition on the hard drive. are you only able to install XP onto the Flash Drive or is it possible to install it onto an External USB Hard Drive ? Reading your post regarding windows xp on the Acer Aspire One ZG5. Service/warranty is for one year, upgradeable to two or three years with moderate price.

Try (X)Ubuntu and you should be up and running pretty easily. Webcam and Skype should not be a problem, but I can’t confirm them to work under Linpus Linux Lite. I’d estimate that you’ll need some 300USD for the purchase and additional RAM. Price varies, depending where you live and from where you purchase it. I want to know the price and is it possible to internet connection with web camera and main purpose is via internet talk with family in india. Xubuntu 8.04.1 in a very, very small laptop. Then to the part that was more interesting for me personally. unknown: It’s quite easy to get devices work in XP, as Acer kindly provides drivers for the laptop.

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.ġ9 Responses to “Acer Aspire One (ZG5) hands on experience” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on at 22:08 and is filed under Linux. Tags: Acer, Linpus, WinXP, WLAN, Xubuntu, ZG5 There’s few tweaks that should help out, just remember to keep backlight as low as your eyes can take.

ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 ISO

iso file from internal storage and external USB drive.īattery life with 3cell version is weak. Still need to try out DVD-playback with DVD-drive connected to USB and.

ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 MOVIE

(I think I need to dump a post about using BT and mobile phone as internet connectivity)Īlso, video playback seems to work out fine, just remember to ditch Totem Movie Player and get VLC. Rest is just finding out correct channel etc. Biggest part is to find out correct settings for your service provider and phone model.

ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 BLUETOOTH

More about those when I have some experience.ĮDIT: Tried to get Bluetooth connectivity to phone and internet-access via that way, and was not too hard. Also thought to try out playing videos, I have some movies in MPEG4 H264 which should stress the video playback enough. Next things to try out include bluetooth connectivity to phone to gain mobile internet over GPRS/EDGE/3G and how well the battery lasts in usual work/everyday usage. Xubuntu was installed onto the laptop with the additional memory already in place. Will take pictures then, I promise! Verbal instructions coming up in a separate post also.Īfter the upgrade, things seemed a bit faster, but that was when the XP was installed.

Didn’t take any pictures though, so we’ll have to see if I come across dismantling the laptop again.

ACER ASPIRE ONE DRIVERS XP ZG5 UPGRADE

Installation instructions will be posted on a separate quide and I will also post a separate post about device technical spesifications and how I installed Xubuntu to it.Įverything else seems to work out of the box.Īs the out of the box configuration has only 512Mb of memory, I did an memory upgrade also. It won’t work “off the shelf” and little tweaking was needed. So far, I’ve had at least decent experience with it.īiggest problem with the laptop and Xubuntu is the wireless card. I was a bit afraid how the keyboard would fit for me, as i’m almost two meters tall. It’s quite easy to get devices work in XP, as Acer kindly provides drivers for the laptop. Not even if you try to use fast SD card on the storage expansion slot for swap. It just isn’t even feasible with Windows. Pain would describe the experience more.īiggest reason is the very slow SSD hard drive. Yep, got that right and no, it was not pleasure. So far I’ve tried out the Linpus Linux preinstalled to the laptop very briefly, as it had to make way for Windows XP SP3. Got one of these little subnotebooks to my hands for a short period and here’s a small summary about it.