On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2014 10.16:49 Felmon Davis wrote: >> greetings! >> >> for the interest of it I purchased an acer chromebook c720. I like >> some aspects of it, especially the quick booting, but like some less >> (the screen) or find disquieting (dependence on the 'cloud'). >> >> I had trouble getting it to boot into Linux (other than chromeos of >> course) but finally got Bodhi and Linux Mint to run. the trick was to >> set the kernel parameter for memory. > (...) > > Hello, > > May ask what you mean with "set the kernel parameter for memory"? I suppose > you mean setting parameters at the grub level? indeed. the acer c720 has 2gb ram. I don't know what the best setting is but I put something like 'mem=1g' on the grub line and obviously can bump it up much further but right now I'm having too much fun playing. installing an ssd card entails breaking the warranty seal; may do so anyway. or just proceed to installing on the present card. the trick will be, I think, getting the touchpad to work. I abhor touchpads but still want it to work. also there are only two usb ports. have misgivings about this machine but it makes a great fiddle for now. F. -- Felmon Davis Success makes a fool seem wise. -- Mapletoft