If I had an unformatted Acer Aspire One netbook, could I install Linux linux from a flash drive or along those lines? Keep in mind, I don't actually have the computer yet, so I haven't tried. I also do not have that much experience with Linux, or unformatted computers..
View 3 RepliesI could not get get the LG External CD R/W Drive that I recently purchased to work with my ASUS Eee Netbook (Linux based) and ended up giving the drive to a friend to use with his Windows XP based laptop.How do I make an External CD R/W Drive work with this Linux-based machine?I am an engineer (civil-structural), but not that savvy with respect to computers; particularly issues of compatibility of hardware / software.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI went and fdisk'd a USB disk and put the Fat32 filesystem onto it. Then I thought I ran dosfsck over it which I thort formatted the disk - apparently not. Then I copied a bunch of files and directories to it. Now I am unable to recover the files and data. In the rare instances when I perform a sloppy mount I see directories named 001, 002, 003 and 004. These directories variously contain files named 001, 002, 004 (no 003) etc.
Fdisk gives me:
I don't know enough to use dd, kpartx, parted, partmon, partprobe, partx et al
I am having trouble installing Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix edition onto a Acer Aspire one netbook. I am attempting to install the OS from a 16GB PNY usb drive w/ the usb-universal installer and ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix .ISO
The reoccurring problem that I am encountering is that when I boot from the USB-drive and begin to install everything seems to be working, and then it is stuck at the menu where it asks who are you?; and of course i have filled in everything asked and at the bottom where you can look at what its doing in the terminal/detail section all it says is ready when you are, and the forward tap is unselectable.
I used unetbootin to make a bootable usb with PeppermintOs and then reset the BIOS to boot from 'removable'.
It would not boot - went straight to the (grub?) menu offering mint, and mint safe recovery which is from the hard drive.
First USB did not work, so bought a new one (4gb) and that did not work so borrowed a 1GB from a colleague. This did not work either.
I have tried two different ISOs (having done the MD5sum on them as directed).
I have tried fat 32 and ext formats (using gparted to format it as I don't know any other way) and from there I can see that it says boot, lda).
When I disabled HDD from BIOS, the USB was read but then the message was that no boot device found, replace with proper boot device.
I also tried using the start-up disc creator.
Each time I have tried it on my desktop PC too, having set up the BIOS and I haven't been able to boot with them there either. I know that the netbook will boot from USB as that is how Mint 9 got installed on it.
In desperation I even tried creating the USB from windows. Even that didn't work.
Whilst I have a working copy of MInt 9 on the netbook, this is not vital, but I so want to try peppermintOS on it.
I bought a MENQ easy PC e790 with 2GB flsdh memory and 128 M RAM but no hard drive. It comes with Windows CE 5.0 The specs are as follows:
CPU: Samsung 400MHz/533MHz processor
RAM: 128MB
ROM: 2GB
OS: Microsoft Windows CE 5.0
Pixel resolution: 800 x 480 pixels
code....
How can linux be installed in CEs place and what distro would be best?
I managed to find an ISO for the Debian ARM installer, but what to do with it. My netbook doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and all the installation instructions talk about something called U-boot, which I don't think my machine has. There is a possibility that my netbook may be able to boot from the SD card slot, because I know the WM8650 by the same chipset manufacturer had the ability to boot up using something called wmt_scriptcmd in the SD card's root if you simply turned the device on with the card inserted. How this script works, and I really have no ROMs designed for this device to test with. Thus far, I can't even install an alternative version of Android on here, let alone Debian. There is no clear idea of how to even boot into the installer.
I'm currently running a rooted version of Android 4.2 that came with my netbook, complete with BusyBox. I've been unable to find any decent installation instructions, because most tutorials assume you want to set up a chrooted environment and be content with using Linux via a VNC viewer and a terminal application. I actually want to have Linux running by itself, and not on top of Android. Most sites that deal with ARM are completely useless because they assume you're using a brand-name smart phone or tablet with a documented recovery procedure rather than an unbranded Chinese netbook with no touchscreen.
Am I basically stuck with the version of Android that came with my netbook because the device is too obscure and undocumented to have custom ROMs?
So the other day I plugged my iPod shuffle into my pc while booted into Ubuntu. I couldn't access it through rhythmbox, o I mistakenly figured the best thing to do would be to format it with the fat system. Big mistake. ended up turning out an error saying something along the lines of not being able to format the iPod in a 32 bit format.Now my iPod doesn't show up at all, and I have no clue where to go from here to get it formatted and set up for use with rhythmbox
View 4 Replies View RelatedI notice that on DistroWatch, the descriptions include "debian based", "arch based", etc. For the newbie, is there any practical difference between the different bases, or is it a Coke vs Pepsi type question?
Is a distro based on Debian say, easier for a newbie to learn or work with than say one that is FreeBSD based?
my play on linux wont work i go to download a game and it just freezes then it asks me to force quit or wait is because of the computer im using a netbook nb305 toshiba with a intel atom processor with ubuntu netbook os?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhy i cant change from 800x480 to 1024x600, that this model of EEE pc doesnt support anything higher than 800x480 at the 10:1 ratio...
Firstly my question is, is it ACTUALLY possible to 'overclock' this type of netbook to run a higher res?
Im running ubtuntu netbook remix 10.04 and am new to linux (again, so sorry) so be nice, and ive tried getting my head around this 'sudo' stuff, and the xorg.conf file (which is nowhere to be found) and ive even tried a program calld astray but im pretty sure ive exhausted my patience as trying to self-teach . . .
And ive also tried to much around with xrandr or whatever that command was.. but i cant really get my head around it, and it kept telling me the resolution didnt exist ect...
When you use an IDE and it asks you if you want frame based or dialog based, what is the difference?
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhat distro should i use, rpm based or debian based?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to upgrade my netbook (sylvania meso g) from ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 9.10 i downloaded the ISO downloaded the usb creator so that i could put it on my thumb drive, create the ISO and reboot with my freshely made ISO thumbdrive. When i reboot i get to the install screen select install and my netbook reboots and starts the process all over again without 9.10 ever being installed. When i select help i get the install screen but if at the very tipy top of my screen you see a 1/2in section that i cant read because it so small for help screen.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.04, i like it, but im hoping to beable to use the netbook launcher in it. Is this possible and if it is how?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the iso from the site and followed the instructions making the usb bootable with the universal usb installer and it simply will not boot. (and yes I did change my boot priority to usb in bios) when I restart the computer it just says "SYSLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 EDD Copyright (c) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al" I aslo tried making the boot usb with lily and the same thing. is the iso from the site bad? has anyone else encountered this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried for at least 4 hours last night and I could not get Ubuntu to install on my Acer Netbook. I used a 4GB Sandisk pendrive and changed the BIOS so the netbook booted from the pendrive, but all it did then was go to a black screen with white letters across the top saying Syslinx and a bunch of info kinda like copyright info.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi'm installing fedora 15 on a netbook emachines em250, i can't install the wifi.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi was in the process of trying to put the latest version of netbook remix on a flash drive (2gb Kingston), but failed mid-process. I had forgotten to format to FAT32, and thus ran into problems in the middle. I'm now left with a flash drive that is partially written to, and completely write-protected. And I can't get rid of anything on the flash drive. Nothing I've tried (Killdisk, re-formatting, MS-DOS) has helped me erase the flash drive permanently (every time I try Windows returns the message that the device is write-protected). Neither can I re-run the USB installer, which I downloaded from the pendrivelinux folk.
Either in erasing my flash drive completely, and starting again -- or in re-doing the making of this flashdrive into a boot disk for the netbook remix version of ubuntu.
Is it sensible to install a netbook edition on an ordinary machine? Like if i want to quickly browse the web and answer emails with fast boot time and without having a full-blown desktop?
View 3 Replies View Relatedafter messing with fstab + mtab, my aspire one netbook completely failed , so i rebooted using a live USB. My desktop and default settings were restored. When i tried to install firefox 3 (default browser is firefox 2 ), yum hangs and refuses to do anything. I tried deleting and reinstalling yum, and it was mostly successful until i tried the "make" command which according to bash does not exist. how to install make without using yum?
View 5 Replies View RelatedCan anyone explain to me how to install the newest flash player on netbook remix? I am pretty rusty with linux and want to put it on my netbook. I currently have it on a flash drive. I want to make sure i can do everything I need on it before I wipe Windows.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got some source code that loads and plays WAV files through the OSS drivers (and USB audio). The code works even under 2.6.34. Is there any benefit to rewriting the code using the ALSA system?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working on a set up, and I like to be able to toggle compiz on and off, or toggle dualscreen on and off. The thing is, I also have conky on my desktop as well as a terminal window embedded in my desktop (that requires compiz). So, when I turn comiz off, or resize my desktop, I want to be able to reposition conky/embedded-terminal and the terminals position is relative to my conky position and the size of my virtual desktop.
I can do this all fine, except that to reposition the terminal I need to kill it then reopen it. But if I kill gnome-terminal it kills ALL gnome-terminals instead of just my embedded one. How can I specifically close my embedded one and leave any others untouched? Lets say that the title of my embedded terminal is "trans777"Also, the trans777 titled gnome-terminal will be killed when compiz is not running.
For the past 2hrs I have been struggling to make KDE launch plasma-dekstop instead of plasma-netbook, but all in vain.I removed, then purged plasma-netbook and plasma-netbook-default-settings packages but after logging out and re-logging in the Netbook UI was back! After restarting the system now I can't even seem to get the KDM. I am greeted with a black screen.--- I restarted the system again and the nasty little bugger is back again! This is so frustrating. How do I get plasma-desktop to load instead?---- Great now I can see that plasma-desktop and plasma-netbook both are running simultaneously! netbook on top of desktop. So my final Q is how do I stop plasma-netbook from loading?
View 9 Replies View Relatedi would like to change my OS to Ubuntu netbook remix, but I already have installed Kubuntu netbook package.
Is there any easy way to make switch from Kubuntu to Ubuntu? Without need to delete all my data?
I installed Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 and immediately noticed the keyboard of my eeepc 1000HE was abnormally warm. Since I dual boot XP I booted to XP and found the fan running faster to compensate for the previous heat. This did not happen on Ubuntu-the fan just was barely running. I had to place the side of the netbook in order to feel the fan running. I issued "sensors" in terminal and it showed 67 degrees C for the cpu temp. Is the latest Ubuntu such a resource hug that it heats up the CPU?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a question regarding to the Graphical Splash Screen. Is their a way to show the text based startup on booting your OS? So. I don't the OpenSuse Background with the loading line. But i want the half transparent black background if possible or just the black background with all the loading texts. The black and white screen.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIve been looking for a Debian based distro that is as close to Debian as can be with all the codecs and stuff already in it, also wireless. I would go with Debian, but TBH, I am not wanting to toy around with setting it up. Yes, there is Ubuntu which I have used for a while now, but I am wanting something closer to the source, as it were. Also, from what I understand, Ubuntu also changes things and they arent straight DEB anymore. Am I crazy? Is there anything like this? Or am I stuck with either Debian or Ubuntu?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am looking for some firewall for ubuntu with GUI, something like comodo firewall available for windows, which lets you to allow only specific processes to connect to Internet. Currently I am using Fire-starter but I dont like it much also it is very old and doesn't allow you to block specific program.
EDIT: I need it for personal use not for any server.