Category: Geeks r Us
Hay guys,
Have a quick question. What is the best way of installing Linux on a netbook? I think this would be useful to have it on a netbook because then i wouldn't have to worry about buying an os disk when i want to do upgrades and the like.
Any comments and suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks,
Z
I've made an external usb cd drive out of an old laptop cd drive that I had gathering dust, so in other words, if you have an external just use that. Before I had this, I used one of those usb > ide cables to plug a normal desktop optical drive in and boot from that.
If you want to use ubuntu then wubi should work but as far as I know thats just a ubuntu thing.
You could always make a bootable jump drive. pendrivelinux.com is your friend on that topic.
I am using Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I installed from a USB drive. In Win, I took the live cd iso and used the unetbootin program to create the bootable usb media. This machine is the eeepc 1100 h. The netbook remix is optimized for the small screen and Adam processors in these machines. I don't have the internal mic or cam working, yet, but I am to understand it's doable.
to blindndangerous thanks for the website. That really helped me find a lot of what i needed.
any more suggestions are welcome.
Dave, how in the world did you use unbootin? I've tried the latest version, and its completely inaccessible with the PC cursor and the jaws cursor of Jaws. Granted, I didn't try NVDA, is that what you used?
I used nvda with unetbootin. The names and contents of fields don't really read, and show as nothing with flat review, but, for instance, when nvda says something like "select cd or iso file", you can hit 'space', and you'll get a list of visible isos. Similarly, on the target drive field, you can activate it with 'space', though it seems like you're nowhere. Finally, you can hit 'enter' for the 'ok' button, though it is invisible. You won't get any indication of disk creation progress, but, if you wait about 15 minutes, it will be done. I suppose, if you're creating a usb from a cd, you will get the drive spin stopping as a kind of progress indication. Note: you can give unetbootin command line options, instead of using the gui. Be sure you get it right, though, you'll have no useful error indication. Also, the gui comes up, even though you entered command line options. Just hit 'enter' and wait. I would never consider this program to be accessible, but have used it.
I have personally used Debian Lenny off of a USB flash disc. I ran it off of a different partition.
So when I boot into the netbook it would pop up a list, I could iht up arrow to boot into Debian or enter to boot into win32.
Outspoken works pretty good with lenny.
Is outspoken another gnome screen reader? Never heard of it.
I think that Tristan meant either Orca or Speakup.
Should have thought of that. There was an Apple product called Outspoken for OS9 and earlier. Also, there is another Gnome reader; think it's called LSR? And, whatever became of the other kernel-based reader called Jupiter?