[Herts] Newbie help with Aspire One

Mon Oct 13 15:25:40 UTC 2008

Mike,

I wanted to get a small computer to use in my family history research. The small size of the Aspire One makes it easy to carry around and it doesn't take up too much desk space in crowded archives etc.

I like the proper keyboard (although it is a bit smaller than my PC) and now that I have re-installed the operating system it should do the job very well.

One big plus is that it locks onto wireless networks very easily. The British Library network was a breeze and so was the National Archives, once I discovered that I would need to use a proxy server for the web browser.

I have also just discovered how to mount my network drive so backing up and transferring files will be very simple.

In fact, I can thoroughly recommend the Aspire One (and I don't work for Acer!) with the Linpus OS.

Gerry

--- On Mon, 13/10/08, ROBERTS, Mike <mike.roberts at astrium.eads.net> wrote:

From: ROBERTS, Mike <mike.roberts at astrium.eads.net>
Subject: Re: [Herts] Newbie help with Aspire One
To: gerrynuk at yahoo.co.uk, herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
Date: Monday, 13 October, 2008, 4:14 PM

 No Problem :)

Sorry it didnt help ;)

Linux is quite a bit different to Windows and there is a fair bit to
learn if you are going to start hacking about with things. Glad to hear
you git it sorted in the end. One advantage Linux does have over Windows
is that usually it can be a lot easier to get help when things do go
wrong.

How are you finding the Aspire one otherwise? It looks like quite a nice
bit of kit.

Cheers Mike 8-{>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> [mailto:herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Gerry Newnham
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 3:50 PM
> To: herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Herts] Newbie help with Aspire One
> 
> Mike,
>  
> Thanks for your reply.
>  
> I had been tearing out what hair was left on my head as I am 
> new to Linux and found the learning curve much steeper than I 
> had expected.
>  
> I followed the instructions on 
> http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2008/09/02/diy-acer-aspire-one-r
ecovery-usb-device >
<http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2008/09/02/diy-acer-aspire-one-
> recovery-usb-device>  but when SelfImage wouldn't let me 
> choose the USB drive I was stuck. I now realise that the 
> problem was that the USB drive wasn't correctly formatted. 
> Once I had reformatted the drive SelfImage worked properly 
> and installed the correct files. 
>  
> So now I have managed to reinstall the operating system and 
> everything is working OK again.
>  
> Thanks for your help.
>  
> Gerry
>  
> 
> 
>  
> Gerry
>  
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 13/10/08, ROBERTS, Mike 
> <mike.roberts at astrium.eads.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	From: ROBERTS, Mike <mike.roberts at astrium.eads.net>
> 	Subject: Re: [Herts] Newbie help with Aspire One
> 	To: gerrynuk at yahoo.co.uk, herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 	Date: Monday, 13 October, 2008, 3:26 PM
> 	
> 	
> 	Hi Gerry,
> 	
> 	I am not 100% sure but I suspect that you might have to 
> do more than
> 	just copy the files / write an image to a memory stick 
> to make it
> 	bootable in linux.  Or at least to get Linux to boot 
> from a memory
> 	stick. Might be worth googling on how to make bootable 
> linux memory
> 	sticks?
> 	
> 	Other things to look at, and apologies if you have 
> already... did you
> 	check in the bios that the system is set to allow 
> booting from usb? If
> 	the system will allow boot from usb, and you have (or 
> can beg borrow or
> 	otherwise get hold of) an usb external cd drive, then I 
> would suggest
> 	burn the linpus image to a bootable cd and whack the 
> usb cd drive on.
> 	
> 	HTH
> 	
> 	Mike 8-{>
> 	
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> 	> [mailto:herts-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf 
> Of Gerry Newnham
> 	> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:52 PM
> 	> To: herts at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 	> Subject: [Herts] Newbie help with Aspire One
> 	> 
> 	> Hi List,
> 	>  
> 	> I have got myself into a real fix with my new Aspire One and 
> 	> have messed up the operating system big time!
> 	>  
> 	> I think the only solution is to reinstall Linpus so I 
> 	> downloaded the image and have written it to a 4GB USB drive. 
> 	> BUT - the Aspire won't boot from it. So now I don't 
> know what to
> 	do.
> 	>  
> 	> Any help gratefully received.
> 	>  
> 	> Many thanks, 
> 	> 
> 	> Gerry
> 	>  
> 	> 
> 	> 
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