Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:51 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > I know, so does my EEEpc. But I used Unetbootin (a package that is > available in Fedora (yum install unetbootin). For some reason, a USB flash drive created with unetbootin and containing CentOS-5.4-i386-netinstall.iso didn't boot on my A

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 19:24 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > I sent a message about using unetbootin to get regular CD and DVDs > bootable off of USB without much work needed... That's my plan for tomorrow. > if you didnt want to try and round up an external DVD drive to use. And I'll look into

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:43 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:06 -0800, MHR wrote: > > Again, I'm no expert here, but if you can get a livecd image written > > on a USB flash drive to boot, you should be able to get a netinstall > > cd image to boot just as well, from a USB drive.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:06 -0800, MHR wrote: > Again, I'm no expert here, but if you can get a livecd image written > on a USB flash drive to boot, you should be able to get a netinstall > cd image to boot just as well, from a USB drive. That "should" do the > trick (if it will boot at all). I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:08 -0800, MHR wrote: > This doesn't sound right. You should be able to boot and run from the > livecd image, whether on an actual CD or on a USB drive, but AFAIK > livecd images *run*, they don't *install*. When I boot the Centos livecd I get the white screen that was me

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
> Again, experts, please correct me if I'm off-base here. I'm not > familiar with Fedora images, though I imagine that they operate the > same general way as RH/CentOS images since they all share the same > base code. Not considering myself an expert, but the Fedora Live CD has an option to inst

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:36 -0800, Agile Aspect wrote: >> I borrowed a USB DVD to do the install of CentOS 5.3 on the Acer One. >> Unfortunately I don't know anything about livecd images. > > I'm starting to think I might have to do the same th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > > My Acer Aspire One has an internal hard drive and that's it. > > When I installed Fedora on it, I put a Fedora livecd on a usb flashdrive > (the same one I'm trying to use for this job, in fact) and it just > worked. > Well, yeah, that's wha

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:49 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > > How did you create the Live USB? > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo > > I went through the "How to partition" and "How to format" sections,then > the "Command

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:36 -0800, Agile Aspect wrote: > I borrowed a USB DVD to do the install of CentOS 5.3 on the Acer One. > Unfortunately I don't know anything about livecd images. I'm starting to think I might have to do the same thing. I managed to install Fedora on the Acer Aspire One fr

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:49 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > How did you create the Live USB? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo I went through the "How to partition" and "How to format" sections,then the "Command Line Method - Linux only" subsection titled "Run livecd-iso-to-di

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:07 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:54 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > If you want wireless, Fedora is probably the easiest of the two. > > It's my understanding that Centos now includes support for the wireless > networking in the Acer Aspire One. > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Agile Aspect
I borrowed a USB DVD to do the install of CentOS 5.3 on the Acer One. Unfortunately I don't know anything about livecd images. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11.  I > would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Eero Volotinen
Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:54 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: >> If you want wireless, Fedora is probably the easiest of the two. > > It's my understanding that Centos now includes support for the wireless > networking in the Acer Aspire One. > >> Any >> specific reasons why you wa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:54 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: > If you want wireless, Fedora is probably the easiest of the two. It's my understanding that Centos now includes support for the wireless networking in the Acer Aspire One. > Any > specific reasons why you want CentOS on a netbook? More

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 09:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 03:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > did you create that USB disk using Fedora or CentOS? > > I created it using Centos 5.4. > > > > does this relate? > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Live

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 03:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: > did you create that USB disk using Fedora or CentOS? I created it using Centos 5.4. > > does this relate? > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Live_Image_issues The screenshot looks exactly like what I see. Which

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 23:01 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11. I > would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can. > > I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB > flash drive out of it. Unfortunately, when

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread MHR
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11.  I > would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can. > > I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB > flash drive out of it.  Unfortunately, when I

[CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-26 Thread Frank Cox
I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11. I would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can. I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB flash drive out of it. Unfortunately, when I boot off of that flash drive, Grub (I guess) immediately tu