[CoLoCo] copy of HP's MIE Linux .iso

[David Overcash]

This is great! I've been meaning to try it out.  I'm downloading it now...
so don't reboot for 3 hours. :-)

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Andrew Barney <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> i just put together a copy of HP's MIE (customised version of ubuntu 8.04
> designed for netbooks) in an Live-CD ISO. I had to create it with
> remastersys after copying the restore partition and installing it on an old
> computer that was not a netbook since i use Ubuntu Netbook Edition instead
> on my netbook. It was actually pretty funny watching it install, because i
> guess since the machine was crappy and not an HP it displayed the COMPAQ
> logo instead of the ubuntu or hp logo.
>
> But, i thought maybe some of you had been curious to try it in virtualbox.
> Plus maybe someone can help host it for other people on the Internet who
> want it. I hear HP may actually discontinue it on all thier netbooks soon,
> which while not perfect it does seem a shame to waste all that money they
> paid canonical to develop it. I am attempting to host it on the same crappy
> computer with apache2 at the moment, but if someone perhaps can host it for
> awhile that would be cool. Maybe a torrent or the tummy mirror?
>
> I sometimes turn this computer off at night and other times dont turn it on
> for weeks, so if you need me to turn it on for a while just tell me.
> http://76.76.91.164/hp-linux-8.04.iso
>
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