[NBLUG/talk] 10-year-old Lubuntu netbook

wordburner wordburner at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 14:35:49 PST 2019


Thanks, William. Unfortunately this netbook doesn't have an SD card port.

Bonnie

On 11/27/19, William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com> wrote:
> An extra tip: I learned the hard way that most eee PCs don't like booting
> from USB.
>
> Try using an SD card. Follow the same instructions you'd use to partition
> and set up a USB thumb drive.
>
>
> William Tracy
> afishionado at gmail.com
>
> "Actually it's more like the 'j' in Eyjafjallajökull."
>  -- CamperBob2, on the pronunciation of the "my" in MySQL
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:09 PM Mark Street <jet at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bonnie,
>>
>> You can use the little utility "Linux Live USB Creator" to create a
>> bootable USB for your favorite flavor of Linux if you have access to a
>> Windows machine of any flavor.  There are several light weight versions
>> out there -
>>
>> https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-lightweight-linux-distros-ideal-intel-atom-processor-pc/
>>
>> You may need to take a look at the BIOS settings to make sure that the
>> machine is configured to boot from the USB if you plan on trying before
>> buying.
>>
>> Heck, I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a 2008 Eee PC 900 just for fun.
>> It takes awhile to startup and gather a head of steam, but usable in a
>> pinch.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> On 11/26/2019 12:40 PM, wordburner wrote:
>> > Another question. The installation manual doesn't mention booting from
>> > a disk or USB stick. Instead, it says you need to create a partition
>> > before installing it. I have no idea how to do that on the netbook. Do
>> > you?
>> >
>> > Thanks again,
>> > Bonnie
>> >
>> > On 11/26/19, wordburner <wordburner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Thanks so much for your quick reply, Scott. Do you happen to know if
>> >> Haiku supports the Dvorak keyboard layout? That's the main problem I'm
>> >> having with the netbook now.
>> >>
>> >> Bonnie
>> >>
>> >> On 11/26/19, scottmc <scottmc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> I really like netbooks, and since they don't make them anymore, I'd
>> >>>> love to figure out how to use this one.
>> >>>>
>> >>> You might try Haiku on that old netbook.  We ran Haiku on a network
>> >>> during LinuxWorld back in 2008, and I think Haiku would still work on
>> >>> an old netbook.
>> >>> We released R1Beta1 just over a year ago, if that doesn't work try a
>> >>> recent nightly build.  You can put it on a USB stick and then boot
>> >>> the
>> >>> netbook from it to test it out before installing it.
>> >>> https://www.haiku-os.org/
>> >>>
>> >>> -Scott
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