<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Dave Morley wrote:
<blockquote id="mid_1233594449_6552_19_camel_smeagol"
cite="mid:1233594449.6552.19.camel@smeagol" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:04 +0000, Robert Longstaff wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_1" type="cite">
<blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_2" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be
to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu
work on it, and how would I install it?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">I have an Aspire One 150 and I'm very satisfied with it. I immediately
wiped out Linpus and put generic Ubuntu Intrepid on it. After only
a small amount of tweaking (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne</a>
is invaluable), nearly everything works perfectly.
The only bit that doesn't are the card slots for certain types of
HD card, though I consider that minor. Otherwise the screen, wifi
and webcam are all fine.
It's not brilliantly fast but not bad for a netbook. Admittedly, an
extra 512Mb would be good but I gather it's something of a nightmare
to install it - apparently you have to essentially dismantle the
entire machine to do so!
The default battery only gives about 2h time, so I've ordered a larger
one which should give up to 6h.
Finally, to install ubuntu, use the UNetbootin utlity
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin</a>) to transfer the ISO onto a
pen drive and boot from USB. Worked fine for me.
Anything else, just ask!
Regards,
Robert.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
You do have to dismantle it but it's not that hard as long as you take
your time and are methodical. It's a really nice machine to dismantle
see the youtube videos
</pre>
</blockquote>
My cousin has an Acer Aspire One and it worked fine with Ubuntu
8.10(standard not one built for web books), picked up the wireless card
with a little bit of playing about but 3g connection works fine out of
the box. Very impressed by it.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
</body>
</html>