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Bon Alex et moi ont a fait un blitz ... Il y a 73 nouvelles photos du voilier

First , i like to say i love my new Aspire one (d250) .... As soon as i got home with it i hurried back home to install ubuntu 9.04 ! And it worked perfectly right out of the box ... But then ! I decided to install World of Warcraft (using wine) . I play wow with my desktop in Linux for year without problems . So i was thinking , it will also work with the aspire one . Hmmm, not really ! I got the game to start and all but it was unplayable . So , after many , many try and recompiling kernel's and trying to fix the intel driver , nothing worked ...

I don't use windows , but i really wanted to play wow with my new aspire , so i reluctantly decide to install windows and use dual boot . Sound's easy , right ? ... Well , not so much . First i never made a recovery usb key when i first got the acer , i did not even boot windows , i when directly to Linux .

So the first step was to order the recovery disk form Acer for 20$ ... Hmm, pretty stiff price for something i thought was doing to be in the box , but since ( i admit) i did not look first or made the usb disk i got the disk and did not say a word about it . 5 days later it got to my house ! i was happy to open the package ... But was soon very angry to find out that the 3 DVD they send me where made only to be use with a external DVD drive ... I scream a few not so nice word in the general direction of Acer ... How can you send a recovery DVD that does not make a usb key recovery for a machine that does not have a DVD drive is something i clearly dont understand .... I was piss of !!! . So i took a talk to my corner hardware store to see how much was a external drive .... 58$ .... I could not beleave that Acer solution was to get the customer to pay 58$ for a external drive !!! ARGGG!!! So after thinking about it , there is how i solve my problem , without having to spend the extra money !

1- I open my acer to discover it was a sata drive (i have the 160g one)

2- I open my desktop ( witch as also a sata drive)

3- I unplug my sata drive (from the desktop) and plug the acer sata drive

4- I used a ubuntu live cd to boot and to partition my hard drive (using gparted) . (50g for windows (fat), 512 linux swap , 30G for /, and the rest (about 80G) for /home)

5- I rebooted

6- I used Acer recovery disk to install on the fat partition (not worry about the change in size... )

7- Reinstall my hard drive in the Acer

8- Now that is the important part ... If you try to boot the machine , it will give you a error 17 (or something like that ) . But it not a problem because grub will fix that

9- I made a usb pen drive installation of ubuntu 9.04 (dont use 8.10 because network will not work) If you are looking how to create a bootable pen drive i strongly suggest using unetboot It is really and amazing tool !

10- install ubuntu (making sure i dont erase my windows (now a ntfs partition) )

11- Voila , you can now use the Acer in dual boot .

I install later WOW and it played really well (have to but the graphique detail down a bit) but now i can work using Linux and play WOW . Aldo if ever i can get wow to work in linux on the Acer , windows will be the first thing to go !!!!

Ps i made the very small guide for people used to Linux and hardware . If many people need i can maybe do a longer and more detail version . Other wise you are welcome to write

Voila , j'ai fait un blog pour le voilier on peut le trouver a abviq.zhugo.org

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Bon , pour ceux qui ne savent pas . Moi et Alex on avais décidé de ce séparer !!! Ouais , ben ca durée deux jours !!!! Elle est partie lundi et je l'ai rappeler le mardi pour lui dire que je m' étais trompé ... Oui, oui je sais !!! .... J'entends déjà vos commentaire, du genre "Mais Hugo , tu t'ai jamais trompé de ta vie !!! pourquoi maintenant " ou encore "Mais c'est surprenant venant d'un être parfait .... comment ca ! , trompé ... toi !!! jamais " .... Ouais , ouais je sais ... Mais cette fois je me suis belle et bien trompé . Mardi quand je me suis levé est la première question qui m'ai venu à la tête a été " Mais je voulais quoi " ... PAF !!!! .... La claque sur la gueule ... Heu , attend ... Elle est super belle ... Ouais , mais si c'est tout ca fait pas des enfants forts (comme dirais mon père ) .... Elle me laisse être moi même ... Elle me fait rire .... Elle me fait me requestionner sur moi et mon environnement ... Elle ne dit rien quand je m'habille comme un teenager de 38 ans ! .... Elle sais me donné de l'espace quand j'en ai de besoin .... Elle joue même avec moi a World of Warcraft !!!!! C'est alors que mon cerveau ma dit "Arrête de pensé maintenant et appelle !!!!!" ... Ouais , j'avoue que ca ma fait bien sourir de comprendre tout ca . Alors j'ai fait la seul chose que je pouvais et je l'ai appeler pour lui dire que je m'étais trompé et que j'aimerais bien qu'elle pense revenir a Montréal .

Finalement après quelques jours (histoire de pensé a tous) elle m'as dit OUI !!!!!