Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

Scott sbennett86 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 23:57:46 UTC 2012


> 
> I tried to follow the instructions in several locations to install the Hexxeh 
> build of Chromium Lime using dd, but it never worked.  I found another set of 
> directions that used a different utility (I don't have the name of it right 
now, 
> but it was USB-(something) in the repositories).  Looked like this utility 
used 
> dd in the background, but whatever it did seemed to work.  The thing with 
> Chromium is it uses a .IMG file, so the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator (which I 
> normally use) and unetbootin didn't seem to support that.
> 
> So after sorting out the correct stick creation utility and making sure I had 
no 
> SD card in the SD slot, it installed just fine.
> 

usb-imagewriter is the name of the package in the Ubuntu software center.  As I 
mentioned it appears to use 'dd' if you look at the details, but obviously it 
knows how to use that better than I do.
















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