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

[Andrew Barney]

ok, will do. Great to hear at least one person wanted to try it out. Be sure
to let me know if it actually works too. I only briefly tested it out by
writing it to a live-usb with the ubuntu usb creator utility. :-)

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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