[ale] Virus Removal

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:03 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Did you use any special boot options?  Booting is intermittent.
> Sometimes it stops at "USB Mass Storage support registered"
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 09:48 -0500, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 06:40 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > For those that have been following the sales, SAM's Club has an Acer
> > > Netbook for $199.  I bought one but must warn you that I found a virus
> > > on it.
> > > 
> > > Seems to be the WindowsXP virus.  Nasty booger. What Ubuntu distribution
> > > is made for this unit and will assist in removing this horrendous virus?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > 
> > I just bought one of them myself from Target (same price) and Ubuntu
> > 9.10 Netbook Remix has the virus off for now until archlinux can settle
> > in. Everything works out of the box except the integrated mic, which I
> > haven't spent the time yet to figure out. I am loving the slick
> > interface canonical put together for these smaller screens.
> > 
> > 
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The only issues I've had so far are preparing the flash drive for
installation and the built-in microphone.

I don't understand why canonical doesn't supply flash images for UNR
considering that's the only way to install it. The iso image they
provide is easily put on a flash drive using their "USB startup disk
Creator" _if_ you happen to run a flavor of Ubuntu. I caved in and used
one of my Ubuntu machines to write the image just to get it done
quickly.

The built in microphone requires the alsa driver to be recompiled and
then it works great.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOneAOD250?action=show&redirect=AspireOne%2FAOD250#Fixing%20the%20microphone

As for the USB boot issue, I haven't experienced that at all...