Technology Fail: You Can Help!

[tamaranth]

[sent home from jury service til afternoon session, so am availing myself of the lovely bugshaw's laptop, on which she has set me up.]

Okay: dead laptop, dead PDA, slow and grudgeful EEE ...

1. I am going to uninstall Windoze on the EEE, and (re)install Linux. I have external drives aplenty but no CD drive. Can anyone point me at an easy how-to (especially, at what stage do I remove Windoze and how?) BEER for any Cambridge person who's prepared to do this for me, ideally in the next few days!

2. If anyone has a Palm T3/T5/TX that they would like to sell me for £30 or less, speak now!

3. Am about to phone Dell and see if there is an alternative to on-site service -- otherwise I'll have to pend laptop until after jury service.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

see my more recent post ....I have a 900, and it all seems to be working smoothly and quickly (though I couldn't get it to boot from USB while Windoze was lurking, so had to use Esc and insist).
Have to admit I have not done a huge amount other than point and click (though am dead impressed that I could set up wireless, load video drivers and update absolutely everything just by clicking 'ok' occasionally).
But I haven't found anything that doesn't work yet!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

am dead impressed that I could set up wireless, load video drivers and update absolutely everything just by clicking 'ok' occasionally
OK, that's impressive!