Moi? I was just trying to be helpful, I promise. (Grovels.)

Just had a thoroughly frustrating hour installing NBR to VirtualBox and ending up with a black screen.

And remembering that happened last time, too. I get a little cross with my brain, sometimes. (I suspect the onboard graphics on that computer are on the way out - should have remembered!)

However, at least I was able to have a look at how much space NBR took up - about 2.2 GiB. This suggests that a five to six gig root partition would be more than adequate, unless you're planning to install an awful lot of software.

And of course, it's not essential to install separate root and home partitions - it's highly recommended in order to simplify future upgrades etc, but it's not that big a deal to simply back up your data and reinstall from scratch, either.

If you're more comfortable with a straightforward two partition system (one ext4 for the distro, and one swap partition), that would work fine.

I did a spot of googling about the Advent 4211 and MSI Wind. Nice. I did a spot of hunting on eBay, and looked at typical prices. Not nice.

Won't be getting one of those this month, then! But I'm increasingly tempted to install NBR to the EeePc - my only concern is that mine is an early model whose hard drive is a) tiny (4gb, almost) and b) soldered to the mother board- so not practically replaceable when I b****r it up.

But NBR does look even better on the tiny screen than the original Xandros, and is a heck of a lot more up to date.