[YLUG] Installing linux (Fedora 10) on a Samsung NC10 - a nice success

[Harry Mills]

For anyone interested in installing Ubuntu on a netbook the Computer
Recycling Project at the university is planning on offering netbooting
facilities to install Ubuntu-Eee, the variant on the main Ubuntu distro
customised for netbooks. It is not currently working but will be soon.

Regards,

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 13:08 +0000, Gaffer. wrote:
> Good Afternoon Mike,
> 
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 11:58, mike cloaked wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:46 AM, mike cloaked 
> <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If anyone is looking to find a netbook with a relatively
> > > straightforward install for linux and where everything works out of
> > > the box, I can relate a recent experience with the Samsung NC10
> > > netbook.
> >
> > One additional point I should make is that during the main install
> > for Fedora, I elected to use "custom disk partitioning" and not the
> > default which I think would simply overwrite the existing partitions,
> > potentially destroying the XP partition, and possibly the recovery
> > partition also!
> > So I chose to use the pre-made root partition, and format it,
> > mounting it as /, and similarly chose to format the /opt partition
> > and have it mounted as /opt, and leave the swap partition as created.
> >
> > The linux partitions I had made by creating an extended logical
> > partition in the free space left after shrinking the partition
> > containing the d: drive area, and then created the two ext3 and one
> > swap partition within the extended partition in order not to exceed
> > the limitations on the number of primary partitions when I used
> > Parted Magic before the main install.  I did not create LVMs although
> > some people may prefer that route. Since I am happy that I will not
> > need to change the partitions once the install has been done I prefer
> > to avoid some of the pitfalls of using LVMs even though the facility
> > to change the size of LVMs on the fly may be useful in some
> > circumstances.
> >
> > Anyone contemplating this partitioning process needs to do it
> > carefully to avoid loss of data....  and really you should back up
> > your existing systems before tinkering with disk partitioning since
> > it can eat your system if everything does not go according to plan.
> > Anyone doing disk partitioning for the first time might be advised to
> > get help from an experienced hacker to reduce the chance of real
> > problems...
> 
> An interesting post !  Certainly a very encouraging one for anyone 
> contemplating going down this route. 
> 
> I bought my wife an "Acer Aspire One" for Christmas and when I can prise 
> it out of her grasp I'm contemplating doing something similar !  
> Particularly after my successful install of "Fedora 10" on my Dell 
> Insperon 1300 Laptop and your kind help in getting "KDE Desktop" 
> installed and working.
> 
-- 
Harry Mills <mail at hjmills.co.uk>