install on eee 1000h resolved

G. pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 04:56:53 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Johnny Rosenberg
<gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/7/19 G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> (resent from the correct address)
>>>
>>> Just as a brief point of information, I have an EeePC 900 running stock
>>> Ubuntu 12.04 off of the internal flash drive. And I have a 16GB SDHC in
>>> the SD slot with a data volume encrypted with Truecrypt. It all works
>>> very nicely.
>>>
>>> Gilles
>>>
>>> On 18/07/2012 17:06, G. wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 18 July 2012 14:02, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> A friend with a somewhat older eee 1000h on it would like me to
>>>>>> install ubuntu for her (will probably go with lubuntu as it works well
>>>>>> off the usb and a regular install would probably be a bit much for
>>>>>> this machine).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However there are already 4 partitions on this machine.  One has only
>>>>>> 39 megabytes on it.  Gparted lists it as a unknown type.  Since she
>>>>>> needs to keep XP on here, how can I tell if deleting that partition
>>>>>> will do harm?  Not found an answer by googling for it at least not so
>>>>>> far.
>>>>> Can you give us the whole list of partitions?
>>>>>
>>>>> It might be some sort of system recovery or diagnostics volume.
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>>>> sda1 ntfs  82 gigs used 21, unused 60, boot
>>>> sda2 ntfs   37 gigs, 3 gig used no flags
>>>> unallocated 24 gigs (I created this for Lubuntu)
>>>> sda3 (Labled P3),  4.89 gigs, 3 .28 used, flags- hidden, lba
>>>> sda4  ! file system unknown 47MiB  no flags
>>>>
>>>> sorry lubuntu does not seem to have a screen shot on live cd
>>>>
>>>> gary
>>>>
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>>
>> Then 12 should work fine on the 1000.
>>
>> I installed Lubuntu on sda2 (D drive) and it works great.
>>
>> Very quick, does most things except for the fancy bells and whistles
>> you find on 12.  I like those fancy bells and whistles.
>
> Hm… 12 as in 12.04? Isn't Lubuntu also 12.04?
>
> By the way, I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on an EeePC 900, and failed to
> make the Compiz desktop cube work properly. Did you have any problems
> with that? Or didn't you bother to install Compiz at all? I mean,
> since you seem to like ”bells and whistles”. If it's easier to make it
> work in Lubuntu, I might give it a try to install it on my Eee instead
> of Xubuntu. I already run LXDE along with Gnome on another laptop, but
> without the Compiz effects (since I play a game that isn't smooth
> enough with my Gnome desktop – too few frames/second), and I guess
> installing Lubuntu isn't the same thing as just adding LXDE to an
> existing Ubuntu install (which is too old anyway – 10.10).
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>
>>
>> I'd installed ubuntu in a situation like this before except for that
>> unidentified partition.  I was not sure what to make of that.  Thanks
>> for the assistance
>>
>>
>> garyk
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Johnny I did not install compiz.  The idea was to make it fast.
Apparently it would work fine in light of the comments above.

We are not supposed to top post in these threads.  Let me know if you try.

garyk




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