[ale] Removing the windisease from netbooks (another one cured)

[Chris Fowler]

I've got UNR running on my D250.  I was running off USB and they system
was horribly unstable.  Sometimes it would boot sometimes it would hang
in the process.  When I would enter my key for wireless the screen would
go black and it would be locked up. Disabling ACPI seemed to fix these
issues but then the wireless failed to work.  

I went ahead and did the install and stability does seem to be present
now.  I'm doing the update over wireless.  That is working.  I've not
tested the Ethernet port yet to make sure it works.

I was going to keep this thing windows and sometimes I have good
intentions of doing it but my nature is that Linux must be running and
after a few minutes live booting UNR I was on a mission to get it on the
system :)



On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 02:52 -0500, arxion wrote:
> This person contacted me directly with the request below.
> Was about to forward it to the list when I noticed his
> second email. Seems he was successful in curing his new
> Gateway netbook of windisease without us. :-)
> 
> ======== first email  =======
> On 2009, Nov, 27, , at 10:34 PM, G Irwin wrote:
> > I just bought a new Gateway netbook and want to install Ubuntu Remix.
> > It does not have a DVR/CD drive and I don't have a clue how do it from
> > a USB drive. Who can you recommend to talk me through this or do it
> > for me. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for the help. I have
> > been uning Ubuntu for a while, but consider myself a novice since I
> > have to Google every time I do something and this time I may be too
> > far out of my league. I'm in Alpharetta for the weekend at my
> > daughter's house,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gordon Irwin
> > 865-268-9898
> 
> 
> =======  second email =======
> On 2009, Nov, 28, , at 1:06 AM, G Irwin wrote:
> > Never mind my request. It took me about three hours, but I actually
> > have Ubuntu 9.10 up and running thanks to the great on-line community
> > support forums that already had all of the answers I needed to put
> > Ubuntu on a USB flash drive and install it including the wireless! To
> > my continued amazement every thing seems to be working perfectly!
> >
> > I'm going to be living in the Atlanta area in the near future
> > part-time and might be interested in the Linux Group after I retire
> > next summer and will be here more.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Gordon Irwin
> 
> 
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