<div>I have an eeePC running <a href="http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/">http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/</a></div> <div>I imagine that should work for the Aspire as well.</div> <div>I would do the standard procedure:</div> <div>- burn a USB stick image</div> <div>- boot live from USB</div> <div>- if all goes well, install<br clear="all">___________________________<br> Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab<br>  <a href="http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html">http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html</a><br>   <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=yishaym%40gmail.com">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=yishaym%40gmail.com</a><br>  +44-20-78378888 x5737<br><br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/5 keith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith@grumpyface.me.uk">keith@grumpyface.me.uk</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.<br> <br>I've checked the Howto install Ubuntu on it at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne</a> and at face value it looks pretty daunting.  If it all goes pear shaped<br> it seems that I've got no means of recovering the original OS because of the lack<br>of CD drive on the machine.<br><br>So before I commit myself, can any<br>of our readers who may have already accomplished the feat tell me how<br> successful/useable the installation has proved to be.<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Keith.<br>---<br>Keith Bowerman,<br>Prestwood, south Staffs, England.<br>(Still using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Linux only machine.)<br><font color="#888888"><br> <br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br>