[YLUG] Oneiric Ocelot Edubuntu install.

[Kit Hamilton]

Thanks for taking time to reply Tom. Maybe I should try making another bootable flash drive. Might the name have any effect? It's just called USB 2 Drive at the moment. If I renamed it with the ISO name might it be more visible when booting or will the computer look inside for the file? I really am not at all technically minded.

Regards,
Kit

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On 21 Dec 2011, at 12:05 PM, Tom Carver <thom.carver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I got an almost identical model last Christmas (1001 PX if memory serves) and had similar problems until I discovered that the BIOS setting for boot device is ignored by default- press Esc just after startup and it should give you a choice of boot devices then (if USB isn't in that list then it may not be a bootable USB).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Tom
> 
> On Wednesday, 21 December 2011, Kit Hamilton <kit.hamilton at o2.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi there YLUG people.
> > Please may I pick your collective brains, or better still maybe one of you would be kind enough to spare me half an hour of real time to help with an install issue.
> > I'm new to LINUX but have successfully and effortlessly installed Edubuntu 11.10 on half my school Toshiba Satellite Pro 300 laptop. My six year old loves it, and I am overjoyed to escape from the Windows environment I have to work in at my Microsoft school, and looking forward to getting some alternative to Apple's obsessive DRM into my music library.
> > My son has asked Santa for a net-book like the one he has at school but with all the 'Penguin Games" on. After reading lots of posts and asking some questions on Ubuntu forums (posting as Hare Brain) I bought an ASUS eeePC 1011PX. This ships with Ubuntu 11.10 from some continental sellers and I've been assured it should work fine, plus it was £100 off in Comet's recent sale so only £199.
> > I hadn't bargained for the hassle caused by its lack of CD drive though. I followed Ubuntu's instructions for creating a bootable USB Thumbdrive, but as predicted in the 'Known issues' section of the page, the eeePC wouldn't recognise it the USB stick as bootable, so I followed the tip of trying to press the escape key right at the end of the BIOS. Maybe I just couldn't get the timing right. I'm very unfamiliar with Windows ( this is my first ever purchase of a PC though I started with a Mac LCII in 1993) and as we all know a little learning is a dangerous thing.
> > I started messing with the BIOS settings to see if that would make a difference, (I can hear your groans) and now Windows opens with a message to say it can't automatically repair itself and nothing else happens. There are three drives showing when the BIOS runs but they're all in brackets as disabled. One is the Hard Drive, one is a CD drive, which I don't understand as it hasn't got one, and one is the USB 2 drive. Have I completely wrecked a new net-book?
> > All I want to achieve is a full Edubuntu install in time to put this little beauty in my son's stocking on Christmas eve. I'd be happy to pay for assistance and bring the net-book over to York from Pocklington if any of you think you could remedy my mindless meddling.
> > Many thanks in anticipation of your advice and help.
> >
> > Kit Hamilton
> > kit.hamilton at o2.co.uk
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