keith wrote: > Yesterday I splashed out on a new toy - the Acer Aspire One netbook, the > Linpus Lite version with 1GB ram, and a 120GB Hard Drive. It's a very nice > little machine and ideal for a first time user, but the OS is rather limited. > > I've checked the Howto install Ubuntu on it at > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne and at face value it looks pretty > daunting. If it all goes pear shaped > it seems that I've got no means of recovering the original OS because of the > lack > of CD drive on the machine. > > So before I commit myself, can any > of our readers who may have already accomplished the feat tell me how > successful/useable the installation has proved to be. >
I haven't actually got one of these machines yet (it's on my Christmas list), but I would suggest maybe the following: Create a USB pen drive of Ubuntu or alternatively SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) Create a disk image of the hard drive (assuming you haven't put much or anything on the machine yet you'd probably find the image would be small enough to stick on a large USB stick or SD card). You can find details here: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtoimage.html This way if things go belly up you should be able to restore the hard disk image. I've done this on a Windows based laptop with success, although I haven't tried it on a Linux machine, although I have successfully managed to create disk images of Linux machines. I'm sure though someone else has actually tried it. I'm surprised though that they didn't bundle in a restore CD/DVD, I mean an external USB DVD writer is only about £30 nowadays. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
