Comments on: Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on an Acer Aspire One

By: michael nicoll-Griffith

michael nicoll-Griffith — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:06:43 +0000

There seems to be a partitioning problem.
I defined my own partitions on an Acer One, (with a separate one for /home) and it insisted there were two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 there. It asked if I wanted to run them in parallel (choosing which one at boot time). Then it tried to redo the partitioning that was all screwed up with extra partitions that I had not defined. It decided to use a root (/) partition that was only 2.3 GB in size, and, surprise(!) it ran out of room.
So I had to abandon, and now am installing 9.04 (desktop) off a CD from and external drive.

By: darkmatter247

darkmatter247 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:42:14 +0000

ok i have the 8.9 inch aspire one ok and i had windows7 on it and one day it failed on me so im trying to install ubuntu nbr and ive read instructions from the ubuntu website i have a 8 gig sandisk cruzer ok. i burned the .img file to it with img writer like the website said but wen i plug it into the aspire one and select it it always says boot error wat should i do????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:44:57 +0000

No. The SD card is purely to boot from and run the Ubuntu installer. Ubuntu (and grub) are installed to the internal hard drive, replacing Windows. I haven’t tried anything else, including dual booting or trying to run grub from an SD card. Sorry.

By: Gerson Lima

Gerson Lima — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:00:31 +0000

I do not know if I really understood it! You are working with a Linux Limpus notebook and making a new partition on your SD card that is working as a second HD, is that rigth? My Acer has a Windows home edition on the main HD. I tried twice to put Ubunto 9,04 netbook remix on the SD card, booting from a pen drive with the Ubunto distribution. It worked preety nycelly until it tried to put the grub in the SD card, finishing with the message this was an impossible to correct error. Ubunto boots from the pendrive, but it seems limited this way. I need to keep the Windows in the main HD for personal reasons but it would be nice to have Ubunto as an alternative in a 8GB SD card. How to bypass the difficulty pointed above?
Sincerelly,
Gerson Lima