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paul.stoner.sfdc
April 18th, 2009, 06:18 AM
Hey everyone! Been a real long time but I am back for good. Next week I am picking up a nice white Acer One. I love those little things! They freaking work - nuff said. I want to rid myself of Windows, and when I get 9.04 I would like to install it on the acer. The unit only comes with USB ports and card slots - I would have to buy an extra external CD/DVD rom drive - which I do not plan on doing.

I have 4 USB pens right here, two 2 gigs, 8, and 16.

I have seen the forum posts about creating a bootable "install pen" for OLDER versions, but no mention of 8.04 or 9.04 - I am pretty sure in the mindset that things have changed a bit. So I am wondering if anyone in the community has tried this and was succesful - and if so, is there instructions for the newest version, again, if so, is it easy to do?

Thanks In advance!

tommcd
April 18th, 2009, 06:38 AM
Here is the official documentation for Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
It includes info on Jaunty. It also has a link to how to install Ubuntu from a usb flash drive:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
Please post back how well Jaunty works on the Aspire One. I have been interested in the new netbooks.

And welcome to the Ubuntu forums!

danni-la
April 18th, 2009, 10:24 AM
Both my brother and myself have Jaunty UNR on our AAO's it runs beautifully!

This thread also has a lot of info on the AAO with Jaunty...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1105218

sandy8925
April 18th, 2009, 10:44 AM
Hey I guess you haven't heard...Intrepid has a utility with which you can put the Ubuntu LiveCD onto the pendrive(you need to have the ISO file for this). So basically you can boot the LiveCD from the pendrive itself (no it doesn't require you to use a CD - Just plug the pendrive and boot from it - I've used it and it works.My friend's netbook didn't have a CD drive either so I installed it for him from the pendrive - and no I didn't use Wubi).

I guess the same utility will pretty much be there in Jaunty too.

The tool is there in Administration -> Create a USB startup disk in Ubuntu. I guess you will have to do that on another person's comp that already has Ubuntu installed(remember you need the ISO).

Or you could also try booting from the ISO. It hasn't worked for me so far but I'm still trying.

ddrichardson
April 18th, 2009, 11:14 AM
Here is the official documentation for Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
Just a minor correction, this is not the official documentation (I haven't finished writing that yet and it doesn't have an ubuntu-doc branch yet), this is the community contributed documentation - although it is very good.

The documentation from the Netbook Remix team is on the team wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UNR).