After reading a post on the register about using linux on netbooks I thought I would give it a whirl.  I got my NC10 before Christmas and its absolutely fantastic, the only downside that I have with it is when trying to use it for long periods.  I used to use Windows XP Home so I thought I would give the new Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR).

So after downloading the .img file from the ubuntu website I needed a usb pen to boot the laptop into a live CD version of UNR.  Unfortunately I did not have one so I popped down to PC World of all places!! and got a sandisk 8GB usb pen for £12.99.

Once back I tried to use Unetbootin to install the distro onto the USB pen unfortunately this caused problems when trying to live book.  Everytime I ended up with a loading please wait….. and then dropping into a BusyBox prompt (what ever that is!!! I’m a geek but not a linux geek.)  I went back to the usb pen and installed UNR using the Ubuntu instructions and this seemed to sort the problem out.  After having a play with the live version I decided to setup the dual boot system.  So while I was in the live CD I used the partition manager inbuilt to reduce the size of the windows disk.

After the reboot I let windows boot first before doing the install, I thought this was probably a good idea because it would have been a nightmare if my windows XP partition was no longer working!!!  Windows went into a disk scan but worked fine after the shrinking of the disk size.

After another reboot!!!! I booted from the usb stick again and followed the install of the distro into the spare space.  It was certainly easier than the last time I did an install of linux.

So I’m now writing this post from my nice shiny new UNR install.

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