--- In amilo@yahoogroups.com, "da_randell" <david.randell@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have an Amilo A 7600 (bought Dec 2002), 1600+ AMD Athlon chip, 10GB
> HD and 256K RAM. Currently I am running XP. I want to upgrade the
> existing hardware and run Open Suse Linux 10.3 on this platform. From
> the manual it seems that 1GB is the max memory I can use on this
> laptop (though am thinking of using 256+512).
Sure if GNU/Linux can work a cell phone it'll run on our laptop

> Any ideas on replacement
> HDs and constraints with the motherboard, e.g. I was thinking of
> replacing the existing HD with a 80GB drive.

My HD is 40 GB

> Is that possible? If so
> how easy is it to do this oneself?

I guess yes, you just have to unscrew the back

> On a related note, am also looking to run XP and Suse Linux on the
> same platform. Any comments on the cleanest way to do this would also
> be appreciated, thanks.

I wrote serveral notes for debian but else you may join a local linux
user group ...

http://rzr.online.fr/comp.htm

Regards