Acer Aspire One Netbook

[ff103]

Hello Everyone: Just for general interest in case anyone searches the Netbook section, I have PCLinuxOS 2010.1 installed from a usb flash drive and duel booted with win XP, installed on a Acer Aspire One netbook, with a 160 gig HD and 2 gigs of ram. Fully updated and using KDE4. everything works including sound and wireless and I just used the defaults on everything. I bought this a a Christmas present for my wife and it was a factory refurb, manufactured in 06. She also uses a wireless mouse with it. hope this helps.

[The Chief]

Good to hear.  I have one and have been planning on loading PCLOS on it.  Thanks.

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

This is great news, as there was a fair amount of hacking to do with the 2009 version!

[ibmorjamn]

I have a gateway net book atom processor from verizon but I think it's made by acer. anyway I can not get an install from my usb drive it will not boot from usb or I have not figured it out after going in bios and changing boot order no luck.
has anyone got this to work ?

[thorper]

Hello Everyone: Just for general interest in case anyone searches the Netbook section, I have PCLinuxOS 2010.1 installed from a usb flash drive and duel booted with win XP, installed on a Acer Aspire One netbook, with a 160 gig HD and 2 gigs of ram. Fully updated and using KDE4. everything works including sound and wireless and I just used the defaults on everything. I bought this a a Christmas present for my wife and it was a factory refurb, manufactured in 06. She also uses a wireless mouse with it. hope this helps.

I have a friend with a Acer netbook and I have been asked about running/installing PCLOS. I have done many installs onto various devices, laptop, desktop, flash stick, even  external usb drive but not a netbook with no CD drive. If you could summarise what you did to get 2010 onto your Acer then I will be most grateful. I have seen posts about installing Linux without a CD drive but i'm still not 100% confident that I understand the process.

[menotu]

Hi thorper,

It looks like ff103 did his using an USB flash stick.  You'll need to make a LiveCD on the USB stick and boot from that (you may need to go into the Bios and change the boot order so the USB is first in the boot sequence)

Edit: unetbootin is in the repo and that can do the trick

Pendrivelinux is very helpful when creating LiveUSB stuff -  http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

[thorper]

I have a copy of PCLOS on external usb drive. It is out of date, it is an updated 2009 version, so I should be able to format the external drive, install 2010 on to that then install on to a netbook? Do I install unetbootin on to the usb drive or on to the target system?

[Ɗα√ϵς§]

If you have another computer with PCLinuxOS, install unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick, or plug in a USB Optical Drive and run the CD from there.

[ff103]

Hello thorper: sorry for the delay in seeing this post. I installed PCLinux 2010 to a usb flash drive using JohnBoys instructions I believe, I would have to look for the link. But I can tell you that all I did was boot from the usb , try everything to see that it worked and then clicked on the install icon and used the defaults on everything. hope the helps.
Here is the instructions I followed, http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74878.msg615093.html#msg615093

[thorper]

Thanks, I will bookmark the link.

[TechSys]

I know this is a pretty old topic, but.. How in the heck did you get 2GB of memory on the Aspire one. It has 512meg soldered in and 512meg in a slot, correct. From what I've seen at the aspire one forums, you can only get a max of 1.5GB.

Anyways good going.

[ff103]

I'll double check first chance I get, it could just be 1 gig, but I thought when I ordered it , it said 2 gig. I'll post back as soon as I can check it.
 O K , I booted into the windows side and in properties it says, 1.32 GHz 0.99 GB of Ram. Not sure what that adds up to or why it reports that way, maybe 1.5 gig??

[The Chief]

I'll double check first chance I get, it could just be 1 gig, but I thought when I ordered it , it said 2 gig. I'll post back as soon as I can check it.
 O K , I booted into the windows side and in properties it says, 1.32 GHz 0.99 GB of Ram. Not sure what that adds up to or why it reports that way, maybe 1.5 gig??

They had to keep it at or under 1 gb in order for MS to allow them to ship it with Win XP rather than Vista, and the rest of the hardware just wasn't up to the demands of Vista.   The model I purchased came with 1 gb and a 120 gb drive.

[DreamTheater]

They had to keep it at or under 1 gb in order for MS to allow them to ship it with Win XP rather than Vista, and the rest of the hardware just wasn't up to the demands of Vista.   The model I purchased came with 1 gb and a 120 gb drive.

Same here. I have installed PCLOS in my XP netbook Aspire One 150X with 1GB Ram and 120 GB HD  with no problems. By default, sound & video adapters, wireless keyboard & mouse, wi fi adapter, usb external dvd and usb hp printer were detected automatically.

I remember sometime ago people were complaining about compatibility of devices with Linux. This is not the case from what i see now (at least with PCLOS). Nice work guys!

[The Chief]

Since my post (#12, above) my Aspire One (AO150) died - perhaps as a result of grand kid abuse.  Won't boot, screen doesn't light up - nothing.

Good news is, a couple weeks back, I stumbled into a Walmart deal ($199) on a newer model (D255 - Atom 450, 1gB ram, 160 gB HDD, Win XP, 6 cell battery) and I'm even more pleased with it.