ACER N281G

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Everyone,

I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this. 

Greg Ennis

[Davi Garcia]

Hey Greg,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec(a)pomec.net&gt; wrote:
>  I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It
> has a
>  a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
>  supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this.
Maybe this can help you:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

Regards,
Davi Garcia

[Sam Varshavchik]

Davi Garcia writes:

>  Hey Greg,
>
>  On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec(a)pomec.net&gt; wrote:
>  > I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
>  > a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.    
>  linpus is
>  > supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  > if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  > os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to  
>  how to do this.
>
>  Maybe this can help you:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB 
That.

Not familiar with that particular gadget, but, generally, for lightweight  
laptops, go with the XFCE spin. In general, a Live image is a fairly low- 
risk way to test if Fedora will grok the hardware. I picked up a second-hand  
EEE 900, with the factory 500MB of RAM and a 4GB drive. Before plunking down  
the cash for some reasonable amount of RAM and disk, I dumped an XFCE Live  
image on a USB stick, and verified that the netbook can boot it, and that  
Fedora sees all the hardware, and is generally usable.

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Davi Garcia writes:

>  Hey Greg,
>
>  On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec(a)pomec.net&gt; wrote:
>  > I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
>  > a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.    
>  linpus is
>  > supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  > if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  > os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to  
>  how to do this.
>
>  Maybe this can help you:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB 
That.

Not familiar with that particular gadget, but, generally, for lightweight  
laptops, go with the XFCE spin. In general, a Live image is a fairly low- 
risk way to test if Fedora will grok the hardware. I picked up a second-hand  
EEE 900, with the factory 500MB of RAM and a 4GB drive. Before plunking down  
the cash for some reasonable amount of RAM and disk, I dumped an XFCE Live  
image on a USB stick, and verified that the netbook can boot it, and that  
Fedora sees all the hardware, and is generally usable.

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Thanks everyone, sure appreciate the starting place.  I have some things
to study and to do.

Greg

[Gregory P. Ennis]

Hey Greg,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec(a)pomec.net&gt; wrote:
>  I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It
> has a
>  a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
>  supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this.
Maybe this can help you:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

Regards,
Davi Garcia

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Thanks for everyone's help.  

I was able to create a bootable usb memory stick with :

livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --msdos path-to/Fedora-*.iso /dev/sdb1

Unfortunately the F16 LiveCD would not work, but the F16 Fedora iso did
work.  I was able to boot into fallback mode of gnome3 only.

the ACER N281G is a little slower than I expected, but will work fine
for my dev use.   Only thing that I have not been able to activate is
the wireless.  Still working on this.

Thanks again for your help!!!

Greg

[Terry Polzin]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:03 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>  Everyone,
>  
>  I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
>  a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
>  supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this.
>
>  
>  Greg Ennis
>  
>   
USB external DVD device would work so long as you had enough power to
run it.

[Elliott Chapin]

On 04/25/2012 08:32 PM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>  On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:03 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
> > a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
> > supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
> > if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
> > os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do
> this. 
> >
> > Greg Ennis
> >
> >
>  USB external DVD device would work so long as you had enough power to
>  run it.
>   
USB hubs are cheap.

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[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:03 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 
>  Everyone,
>  
>  I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
>  a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
>  supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this.
>
>  
>  Greg Ennis
>  
>   
Goto unetbootin.sourceforge.net

and Download the unetbootin program. I should be at least unetbootin-568

This will allow you to download a copy of Live F16 onto a usb drive,

Boot from this usb drive and then choose the install F16 option (I am
not sure what its name really is but it is something like that) Then
upgrade using yum.

Just booting the Live usb version will tell you if F16 will work on the
hardware.
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[Bill Davidsen]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>  Everyone,
>
>  I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0.  It has a
>  a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD.   linpus is
>  supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see
>  if it will fly.  I have never used a memory card reader to install an
>  os, nor a usb install, nor a network install.  Any recommendations as to how to do this.
>  
I know more about this than I want to, so here's what I have found:

1 - some BIOS will boot an ISO image off a USB flash. This is easy, you can copy 
either a live-CD image or an install (4GB) image to you memory device with dd, 
no magic needed.

2 - you can make a bootable memory device from an ISO image using unetbootln to 
write an image to memory device, this has not failed for me with install DVD, 
one live-CD didn't boot.

3 - you can use the livecd software, which is a family of programs to write 
live-CD, bootable ISO images on memory devices, and the like. After you figure 
out which one to use for what you want to do, it will probably work.

4 - With recent distributions, I have found that putting the 4G install DVD 
memory device and trying to install to an unpartitioned drive (in my case new 
SSD drives) results in a requirement for network access, which I couldn't give. 
I wound up installing in a VM with raw disk image and copying that to the 
internal drive from a live-CD boot which did work. This is not all cut and 
dried, the BIOS involved is important, the distribution, etc.

Good luck.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt;
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