On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:02, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I seem to have an eee pc 900 that has gotten into a snit. Does anybody here > have the original disks I could borrow? This was originally an XP machine, > but a previous owner installed Ubuntu 9.04. It is now only partially > functional.
if you're going to get rid of the existing install anyway, why not install the current ubuntu, which you can download yourself? you have a choice of 'netbook remix' which is what you may want if you were the person who just wanted to use it to surf and edit documents--it's simple and stripped down. however, i run full/regular ubuntu on my netbook and it works fine...but my netbook is also a little more capable than yours, too (10" 1366 x 768 screen, 320G hard drive, 2G ram). unless you want to install xp, i'd stay away from the original disks entirely--any linux should boot just fine on the thing, netbook-aware or not. > Alternatively, I could install some Linux which is tailored for the SSD > which this machine has. current ubuntu should boot blazingly fast from that disk. probably in under 10 seconds. they severely optimized the boot process in 10.4 (april) and i would suspect it is at least as good in the latest 10.10 release. i'm not sure in what other way (that would be meaningful on such an otherwise underpowered machine) someone would "optimize" for the ssd. even a complete ubuntu install shouldn't take even 16GB, and you don't sound to need a complete install (developer tools, games, etc) > I would prefer Ubuntu, since that is what I > am accustomed to. I also need to update the BIOS, but I do not want to > chance messing that up, so I want to get the machine in a stable state > first. one usually updates the bios independently of the linux install, with a usb stick containing freedos or similar. or anyway, this one does =) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
