How to install Ubuntu on an Atom netbook
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:24 am
Most of the netbooks are coming without a CD/DVD drive and with a licensed copy of Windows 7 Starter. For example Acer Aspire One D257 is such great netbook. But, how you are going to install a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu on it?
There is an easy way to do that assmuning you already have a more powerful PC running Ubuntu.
There is an easy way to do that assmuning you already have a more powerful PC running Ubuntu.
- Download the latest copy of Ubuntu ISO image. As of today, the latest version of Ubuntu is 11.10.
- Run startup USB Creater.
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- Put Ubuntu onto your USB flash drive. Please be sure you need to have a 1GB USB pen drive/CF/SD/MMC card. Make sure to backup the USB pen drive since Ubuntu is going to format it to load the OS.
- Configure your computer to boot from USB flash drive and boot from it
- Try Ubuntu or install to your hard drive.