On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Eric House <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a rant, a warning, and a request for help. The help part: any > ideas on how to get Windows 7 Starter onto a netbook for which it's > licensed without buying a disk?
Buy another identical netbook, image the disk to the other netbook (bunch of ways to do this), then return the second netbook. Be sure to ask if there is a restocking fee or similar. > As soon as it arrived I installed > Ubuntu "Netbook Remix". The installer for that distro doesn't support > LVM and won't let you install without creating a swap partition, so a > minimum of two partitions were required. Samsung's setup used three, > so I wiped it, figuring I could restore later (after enabling LVM and > freeing up the swap partition), and moved on. Just an FYI: one can think about almost all of the *ubuntus as a minimal Ubuntu Server install plus some desktop. For example, Kubuntu is Ubuntu Server + kubuntu-desktop. Xubuntu is Ubuntu Server + xubuntu-desktop. Standard Ubuntu is Ubuntu Server + ubuntu-desktop. And UNR is Ubuntu Server + mobile-netbook-remix. So if you want UNR with LVM, install a minimal Ubuntu Server, partitioning with LVM, and then use 'sudo tasksel install mobile-netbook-remix' FWIW, the above is not 100% correct, but close enough for government work. Good luck and let us know how things go. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
