Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet? I know I have a USB port on it and that I can put Fedora on the USB stick as an install file, but how do I get the TABLET to read info from the usb stick FIRST and then install Fedora on it? It's not like a PC or laptop where you can alter this info in it's BIOS....at least not that I can tell, but I want to try and get Linux on there (and yes, I KNOW that Android is a form of Linux!) I just want to see if it's possible and how it would run, also does Fedora have the necessary "tools" to work with a touch-screen environment?.....just curious and thanks!!
EGO II
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 13:42 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
Start here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxonandroid/
BTW, I have already turned one phone into a paperweight so you need a COMPLETE backup first.
On 09/22/2012 03:17 PM, Fedora User wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 13:42 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
Start here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxonandroid/
BTW, I have already turned one phone into a paperweight so you need a COMPLETE backup first.
Cool!....thanks!
EGO II
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
That will depend if its unlocked, if there is a Fedora kernel for that exact ARM board (unlike most PC platforms ARM platforms are very varied).
In addition the standard Fedora desktop is a bloated memory hungry blob so I imagine it would suck on this hardware, especially if you didn't have an accelerated 3D X server.
However you've got some chance of getting Debian on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28995664
is the thread working on this stuff.
On 09/22/2012 07:21 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
That will depend if its unlocked, if there is a Fedora kernel for that exact ARM board (unlike most PC platforms ARM platforms are very varied).
In addition the standard Fedora desktop is a bloated memory hungry blob so I imagine it would suck on this hardware, especially if you didn't have an accelerated 3D X server.
However you've got some chance of getting Debian on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28995664
is the thread working on this stuff.
Excellent!....thanks for this info, as it stands right now I don't think they've "perfected" the exact recipe for getting Fedora onto tablets as yet, but I can always hope that in the future they'll nail it. I think I'm going to go with Debian, only because it appears to have the least problems running on the various hardware out there.....until then I'll keep on chugging with my Fedora 217 laptop! Thanks again for the link and the info...
EGO II
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:59:43 -0400 EGO2.1 eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/22/2012 07:21 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
That will depend if its unlocked, if there is a Fedora kernel for that exact ARM board (unlike most PC platforms ARM platforms are very varied).
In addition the standard Fedora desktop is a bloated memory hungry blob so I imagine it would suck on this hardware, especially if you didn't have an accelerated 3D X server.
However you've got some chance of getting Debian on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28995664
is the thread working on this stuff.
Excellent!....thanks for this info, as it stands right now I don't think they've "perfected" the exact recipe for getting Fedora onto tablets as yet, but I can always hope that in the future they'll nail it. I think I'm going to go with Debian, only because it appears to have the least problems running on the various hardware out there.....until then I'll keep on chugging with my Fedora 217 laptop! Thanks again for the link and the info...
Hi Eddy,
I am also interested in this and I do have a toy to play with. with no consequences. In case you are able to, could you please document somewhere all the steps you undertook to get this to work?
Many thanks, Ranjan
On 09/23/2012 09:02 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 22:59:43 -0400 EGO2.1 eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/22/2012 07:21 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:42:55 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." eoconnor25@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all, I am in need of some advice. I have received a tablet for my birthday (Acer Iconia Tablet A200-XE) My question is, is there a way to install Fedora on the tablet?
That will depend if its unlocked, if there is a Fedora kernel for that exact ARM board (unlike most PC platforms ARM platforms are very varied).
In addition the standard Fedora desktop is a bloated memory hungry blob so I imagine it would suck on this hardware, especially if you didn't have an accelerated 3D X server.
However you've got some chance of getting Debian on it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28995664
is the thread working on this stuff.
Excellent!....thanks for this info, as it stands right now I don't think they've "perfected" the exact recipe for getting Fedora onto tablets as yet, but I can always hope that in the future they'll nail it. I think I'm going to go with Debian, only because it appears to have the least problems running on the various hardware out there.....until then I'll keep on chugging with my Fedora 217 laptop! Thanks again for the link and the info...
Hi Eddy,
I am also interested in this and I do have a toy to play with. with no consequences. In case you are able to, could you please document somewhere all the steps you undertook to get this to work?
Many thanks, Ranjan
Will do Ranjan!
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