[ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire

[davmor2]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:40:19 +0000 (GMT), keith <keith at grumpyface.me.uk>
wrote:
> Yesterday I splashed out on a new toy - the Acer Aspire One netbook, the
> Linpus Lite version with 1GB ram, and a 120GB Hard Drive.  It's a very
nice
> little machine and ideal for a first time user, but the OS is rather
> limited.
> 
> I've checked the Howto install Ubuntu on it at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne and at face value it looks
> pretty daunting.  If it all goes pear shaped
> it seems that I've got no means of recovering the original OS because of
> the lack
> of CD drive on the machine.
> 
> So before I commit myself, can any
> of our readers who may have already accomplished the feat tell me how
> successful/useable the installation has proved to be.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Keith.
You can drop the linpus cd and a usb pendrive into a machine with a cdrom
reboot select boot from cd and select make rescue usb device (or something
similar).  By doing this you effectively create a usb install device in a
similar fashion to Ubuntu.
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