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Ph1l0z0ph3r
September 2nd, 2009, 07:10 AM
What would i have to do in order to install the UNR onto my Acer. It doesn't have a cd drive and I don't have a USB flash drive but I do have a 2gb SD Card and an External USB HDD so how can i install it. I would prefer to just mount an .iso and do it that way since its the easiest way on my netbook and i just rather put Ubuntu over my Windows 7 partition. Haven't seen any 9.04 UNR .iso files to download.

tommcd
September 2nd, 2009, 09:31 AM
Are you able boot the Acer Aspire One from the SD card reader? If so, you can just put ubuntu netbook remix (UNR) on the SD card, boot from it, and install UNR.
To download UNR, get it from here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook
To install UNR see this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles
and:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UNR
And here is the Aspire One documentation for Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

Hope this helps; and welcome to the Ubuntu forums!

Topsiho
September 2nd, 2009, 10:22 AM
See

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

There is all information you need. I run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One (the regular, after I had the Remix on it, but the regular is better.)

Good luck :)

Topsiho

Ph1l0z0ph3r
September 2nd, 2009, 11:09 PM
Are you able boot the Acer Aspire One from the SD card reader? If so, you can just put ubuntu netbook remix (UNR) on the SD card, boot from it, and install UNR.
To download UNR, get it from here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook
To install UNR see this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles
and:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UNR
And here is the Aspire One documentation for Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

Hope this helps; and welcome to the Ubuntu forums!

Tried booting into my SD Card but it didnt give me the option. Only options it gave me was the USB Drive and then the regular HDD. Guess ima just have to go get a USB Stick.

Luca_turicci
September 3rd, 2009, 01:28 AM
how come there's still people asking about this? i know it's human to ask. But why isn't there a manual on the Ubuntu website? or even here!

teh603
September 3rd, 2009, 03:08 AM
Tried booting into my SD Card but it didnt give me the option. Only options it gave me was the USB Drive and then the regular HDD. Guess ima just have to go get a USB Stick.

That's because the AAO has a massively buggy ROM that doesn't allow boot from SD cards. Someone needs to put that in the FAQ or something, because I'm getting tired of repeating it.

tommcd
September 3rd, 2009, 11:53 AM
Only options it gave me was the USB Drive and then the regular HDD. Guess ima just have to go get a USB Stick.
If you can not boot from the SD card, then getting a usb flash drive would be the most cost effective option. USB flash drives can be had for about $10 per gigabyte these days. A 1GB drive would be good enough according to the article I linked to in my last post:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles