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Installed EEEBuntu (Netbook remix)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

 I managed, thanks the rainy week-end, to install EEEBuntu (Netbook remix) on my EEEPC.

 My primary target was to have a dual boot system, so I first installed Windows XP (a properly reduced version) on the 4GB internal disk (sda) then I proceeded with EEEBuntu installation on the 16GB internal disc (sdb).

 Usb drive preparation:

 I did choose  the easy way to prepare my USB drive to boot with EEEBuntu. I downloaded and installed Unetbootin, Windows version, and used it to easily prepare the boot drive from the already downloaded ISO file. (this is the fourth boot-from-usb tool I install since I bought the EEEPC)

 EEEBuntu boot and Installation: 

 After EEEBuntu boot I launched the installation program. At first I didn’t see disk sdb as available for install, after a while I realized that the disk has to be flagged as “bootable” to be visible from install program. I used GParted to set the boot flag on disk sdb then I continued with installation. I did choose default options for installation and everything went fine. After installing I entered in BIOS set-up and selected disk sdb as first boot device in order to boot into EEEBuntu by default.

 First impressions:

  First impression EEBuntu gave me was the feeling of working with a full system, with a graphical interface well suited to the EEEPC small screen. I never felt using a limited interface like the original Xandros “easy mode“. I haven’t installed any application yet, apart from FBReader, so I haven’t appreciated yet EEEBuntu repositories completeness, one the main advantages in passing to Ubuntu.

The main disadvantage of EEEBuntu is loading time: it takes almost two minutes to have the computer ready (Xandros was quite faster in it). One more minute of wait time is not very important if used during a train trip which lasts 30-45 minutes (during lucky days).


 



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Posted by musante at 18:41:00 | permalink

Previous Comments

Hi Maxx,

I have a close friend who bought a “Blue” Netbook. He’s a Linux user but he can’t get the regular Ubuntu to install in it. Can this EEEBuntu work on his netbook?

Thanks,

EdZee

Posted by EdZee at April 25, 2009, 2:27 pm

Hi EdZee!

Unfortunately EEEBuntu is very specific for Asus EEE serie netbooks. I also checked on EEEBuntu forum and it seems that on computers other than EEE-PCs EEEbuntu doesn’t offer advantages respect to plain Ubuntu installation (http://forum.eeebuntu.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=669).

Who does produce “blue” netbook? I looked for it with google but I mainly found references to Acer Aspire One and Samsung NC10 (where blue is the computer case color). Can you provide some further information?

Thanks for commenting!

Maxx

Posted by musante at April 25, 2009, 10:09 pm

Hi Maxx,

I really don’t know much about “Blue” Netbook but my friend’s unit has a Via processor which looks like Ubuntu and other Linux distros do not support.

When any Linux distro is installed in it, the screen just blacks out without reaching an actual boot. It runs well on XP but my friend is a Linux advocate. His problem, anyway.

Thanks for the information about EEEBuntu.

Posted by EdZee at May 5, 2009, 4:22 pm