Dave R wrote:
 Hmm, I might give the boot live cd route a try.
  
I tried that on an MSI Wind U100: It gets as far as starting X then 
fails; you end up with a black screen and a mouse pointer. Looking at 
the bug reports, it seems that you can get it to install on this 
hardware with the alternate CD, but then there are other problems. I 
think I might skip this one.
Dave B