Yesterday, I installed a Ubuntu system on the laptop of a friend of mine, whose windows got bugged by a virus and who could not boot any more.
The laptop of my friend is a Acer Travelmate 2420. There seems to be a number of good experiences with this laptop under linux so I went ahead and tried the installation.
Moving ext3 impossible
The installation went without real problems, apart that as I tried to update ubuntu there was enough place on the hard disk (well there may have been in the end if I had cleaned the cache of the previous updates. I will have to take a look at this). Once I noticed that I tried to resize the root partition. To do this, I resized the home partition. This was no problem. But as I tried to move the ext3 partition, I noticed that it did not work. So I had to reinstall the system another time.
Printer
The other problem I had was installing the printer. She has a Canon PIXMAP IP 1700 and there is no direct driver for this printer. It seems that another driver works: the IP2200 driver. Yet I haven't tried whether it works yet. I wanted to make sure that it does not ruin her printer.
DVD Burner
I will also have to make sure her DVD burner works without problem.
Antivirus
She also asked me to install an antivirus which updates itself. I used for this the antivirus which is accessible from ubuntu (I think it is the clamav). And she tried to install another one from the internet antivir, but I do not know if that works.
