I think you assume a skill level I don't have.Sean Hayden wrote:Yep, a quick search shows people are making it work. Now get in there and beat your head against the keyboard.
Why would I want to install Linux?
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It's pretty straight forward actually. I'd recommend Linux Mint. If you want to give it a go, this is all I did:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Sean Hayden wrote:I'd just google your netbook and the linux distro you're looking at. Ubuntu runs great on this little thing.
Download UNetbootin, a tool to create a bootable USB stick with Linux installer: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetb ... latest.exe
Download the iso for the latest Linux Mint version: http://mirror.umd.edu/linuxmint/images/ ... -32bit.iso
Plug in a spare empty USB stick. Run UNetbootin. Selcet the iso you just downloaded and the correct USB drive to write it onto, and let it do it's thing.
Back up anything you want from the netbook.
When the USB is ready, plug it into the netbook and reboot from the USB.
You will be able to test out Linux for a bit, check it all works, and then run the installer to get it onto the netbook's hard-disk.
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That sounds like a plan.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Yes, I understand that leaving the safe haven of microchurch feels scary and difficult, but to me you seem ready for it. Just make the plunge, you will see how nice it is on the other side, as a real free pinguinist.
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Smallest chips I have are 8 gig.MiM wrote:Yes, I understand that leaving the safe haven of microchurch feels scary and difficult, but to me you seem ready for it. Just make the plunge, you will see how nice it is on the other side, as a real free pinguinist.
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There are specialist Linux utility distributions for doing things like that, without have to install anything on the hard drive. Parted Magic is the most well-known.DaveD wrote:If there's a problem with Windows that a fresh reinstall is the easiest solution for, having Linux as well can be useful, as you can access all the files on the Windows partition and copy them elsewhere (not on the same drive). I often hear of people bemoaning the loss of important documents or precious photos, and being able to boot into Linux would let them rescue them.
Linux can handle file names that Windows can't. For example, you can include a ":" in a file name on Linux. Save that on a Windows partition. Restart in Windows. Try and open, copy or just delete that file - no joy.mistermack wrote:I would be wary of using Linux to copy windows files. I was once copying backed up files created on windows, when I kept getting a message saying that the file name was too long on a file, and the copying would stop. It was doing my head in so I thought I'd use UBUNTU to do the job.DaveD wrote:If there's a problem with Windows that a fresh reinstall is the easiest solution for, having Linux as well can be useful, as you can access all the files on the Windows partition and copy them elsewhere (not on the same drive). I often hear of people bemoaning the loss of important documents or precious photos, and being able to boot into Linux would let them rescue them.
It was great, it went through the lot without stopping once.
Only later, I found that lots of the files were un-usable. Why, I don't know, but never again.
I had to do a rescue of the deleted hard disk and lost some files permanently.
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Linux/Unix doesn't like filenames with spaces in them. You can get around that byt putting a backslash before each space in the file/directory namemistermack wrote:I would be wary of using Linux to copy windows files. I was once copying backed up files created on windows, when I kept getting a message saying that the file name was too long on a file, and the copying would stop. It was doing my head in so I thought I'd use UBUNTU to do the job.DaveD wrote:If there's a problem with Windows that a fresh reinstall is the easiest solution for, having Linux as well can be useful, as you can access all the files on the Windows partition and copy them elsewhere (not on the same drive). I often hear of people bemoaning the loss of important documents or precious photos, and being able to boot into Linux would let them rescue them.
It was great, it went through the lot without stopping once.
Only later, I found that lots of the files were un-usable. Why, I don't know, but never again.
I had to do a rescue of the deleted hard disk and lost some files permanently.
e.g.
# cd My\ porn
# cat furry\ sites.txt
Also, Windows uses the wrong character for CRLF (^M) so you often get those at the end of each line in text files.
There's a utility called dos2unix (and unix2dos) that will fix that.
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Re: Why would I want to install Linux?
Or if you are a Windowsy person you can use the GUI and don't have to bother.Mysturji wrote: Linux/Unix doesn't like filenames with spaces in them. You can get around that byt putting a backslash before each space in the file/directory name
e.g.
# cd My\ porn
# cat furry\ sites.txt
Now that is very very annoyingAlso, Windows uses the wrong character for CRLF (^M) so you often get those at the end of each line in text files.
There's a utility called dos2unix (and unix2dos) that will fix that.
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I actually had cause to use Linux for the first time in a couple of years, the other day. Because something is borked with my Windows machine, I can't install any software that relies on the %temp% directory to unpack and install. I have copied some old image files back onto my main drive, and was certain that I had duplicates there. As none of the find duplicate software I came across would install on Windows, I created a Linux Mint USB bootable drive and found and deleted the duplicate images in Linux. And Mint ran VERY nicely and very fast from a USB2.0 stick. Quite impressive. That's the first USB bootable Linux I have done.
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Mint is lovely!rEvolutionist wrote:I actually had cause to use Linux for the first time in a couple of years, the other day. Because something is borked with my Windows machine, I can't install any software that relies on the %temp% directory to unpack and install. I have copied some old image files back onto my main drive, and was certain that I had duplicates there. As none of the find duplicate software I came across would install on Windows, I created a Linux Mint USB bootable drive and found and deleted the duplicate images in Linux. And Mint ran VERY nicely and very fast from a USB2.0 stick. Quite impressive. That's the first USB bootable Linux I have done.
The only problems I've had with Mint were when I had that steampunk login manager.
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Re: Why would I want to install Linux?
To run your own BNC.
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Re: Why would I want to install Linux?
Actually it's your shell that doesn't take kindly to whitespace in calls to directories and files. Like everything about linux, you can get the code, change it to suit your tastes, compile it, run it, and even freely distribute it if you want.
So.. that's a reason you'd want to install Linux.
So.. that's a reason you'd want to install Linux.
Re: Why would I want to install Linux?
But most of them seem to come with bash. I grew up on tcsh damnit.
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