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[Justin Karneges <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 August 2010 12:59:49 Adam Hill wrote:
> 	Its so annoying that such an excellent laptop is such a pain to get Linux
> running on at the mo :(. I'm sure as time goes on, solutions will be found
> as they were with the VGN-Zs.

I have a VPCZ1290X on order, and will help with testing once I get it.  I do 
have some dumb questions right now:

1) What are the large remaining known issues?  I've read a lot of material 
now, including following this list lately, and I get the impression that it's 
graphics cards and raid booting.  Of course these are fundamental, so when 
they don't work then the whole laptop is useless.  But it is still nice to 
know that there are only a couple of things to figure out, and once the 
system is booting there are not even more things to fight against (e.g. wifi, 
touchpad, webcam, etc).

2) Can someone explain the default raid setup?  I think it is Raid 0 which 
allows multiple hard disks to appear as a single unit?  Mine is the 128GB 
model which I think means two 64GB disks.  And this is a problem for grub 2?  
Is that the only incompatibility?

3) What is the definitive howto document?  I apologize but it is not 100% 
clear to me from the launchpad group information what the starting point is 
to installation on the Z.  I assume simply booting from vanilla Lucid is not 
really the starting point.

Thanks,
Justin