On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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) My understanding is tailoring for SSD takes into account that there is a limit on the number of writes the drive can handle. I would expect that involves choices in the kernel. Speed is not the issue. If the netbook remix does that, I will choose it. > 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 > =) I realize the BIOS is independent of the OS, but the manuals describe getting to the start of the BIOS upgrade through the OS. How do I do it with a broken OS? I have the new BIOS file. Is just adding it to a bootable thumb drive all that is needed? Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
