install on eee 1000h resolved

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/7/20 G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Yes, I know. That's why I never do that.

> Let me know if you try.

I will.


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Johnny Rosenberg
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