Installation on Netbook?

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#1

Can Suse be installed on a netbook without a DVD drive?

I am thinking of

Sony VAIO W11S1 10" 1GB/160GB Netbook
which has windows XP and
Processor Intel® Atom™ Processor N280 with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technolog

Thanks

#2

On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:06 +0000, signetone wrote:
> Can Suse be installed on a netbook without a DVD drive?
>
> I am thinking of
>
> Sony VAIO W11S1 10" 1GB/160GB Netbook
> which has windows XP and
> Processor Intel® Atom™ Processor N280 with Enhanced Intel SpeedStep®
> Technolog
>
> Thanks

You could boot a live one from USB and do install from that.
When I’ve used netbooks, I simply attached a USB DVD to them.
For me, that was the easiest thing to do.

#3

hi
I was maybe trying to install and dual booting?

Is that too ambitious!

Thanks

#4

No, not if you have a hdd on your netbook
either dd if=/address of your liveimage of=/dev/sdx bs=4M
or use a usb dvd drive

When i got my acer aspireone netbook I had a live usb stick in my pocket and went to the nearest starbucks and installed openSUSE with dualboot to windows xp in about the time it took to drink a small cup of coffee. My hd is 160G

#5

Hi
Does the system come with a restore DVD or an image on the drive? If it
has a restore DVD, might pay to invest in a USB DVD drive. Else if it
only has an image, suggest you dd those of to an external device.

This netbook had both, but I replaced the drive with a 250GB one and
redid an image from the restore DVD and now multiboot, XP Home, SLED11,
openSUSE 11.2 and openSUSE Moblin 2.0

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
up 0:19, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.26
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

#6

Hi

I have not purchased yet.

But HD is about 160Gig and comes with XP

I have official DVD of 11.1 which I would like to dual boot with XP. So really you are suggesting getting a USB ext DVD and get the bios to boot from the ext usb DVD and install that way.

Regards

#7

Hi
If your budget can afford it, I would recommend. I use a liteon
one DX-8A1H but I also upped the RAM on my ASUS to 2GB as well.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 11 days 6:24, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.09
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

#8

Hi

Is there a Asus Netbook you can recommend.There seems so many on thier site and they are not the cheapest but must be good.(For use with suse as well.)

Thanks

#9

Hi
I looked at both HP and ASUS, but liked the fact that the 1000HE had
the N280 processor and my other requirement was bluetooth. I know
there are some issues with the 1000HA and wireless at it seems to have
a slightly different atheros chip…

If your not sure maybe if you come up with a short list of models and
post some links?

Maybe a browse through here as well http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 11 days 10:03, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.33, 0.21
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

#10

Thanks for the link and info?

There is an Acer Aspire One 531H-0BB Netbook, 1.6GHz with 10.1 Inch Display, Blue from John Lewis with 3 years warranty?

Regards

#11

Hi, maybe I’m late in this post, but do you have check this?

Live USB stick - openSUSE

I have installed on my Aspire One with DualBoot to WinXP without problems.

Just find your self a LiveCD, download, follow the instructions on that Link, and done.

I have a spare pendrive just for that :wink:

Cheers.

#12

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

Are you happy with the

Acer Aspire One

The one I am looking at is Acer Aspire One 531H-0BB Netbook, 1.6GHz with 10.1 Inch Display, Blue from John Lewis

Thanks

#13

Thats the model that I have.

Its a great lappy, if you are not looking too much horse power.

What i just cant decide yet is which desk to install… Personally, i don’t like Ubuntu Netbook …

Until know I have KDE4, and its working fine… :wink:

Good luck!

#14

I like and am used to KDE3.5

As long as it is supported.

Thanks for your posting.

#15

Hi

I was hoping to load it on the netboot permanently and have a dual boot system using the MBR.Is this possible? Or need I buy an external DVD unit?

Thanks

#16

Of course you can… Even better, you can install openSUSE there without touching the MBR, so the Restore partition of Win will keep working.

Just follow this: Live USB stick - openSUSE

Download your favorite livecd, put it into a pendrive, then install, and done! you have your dualboot gecko!!

Good luck!