[CPLUG] Installing Linux

[Mark Gius]

I believe that we now have the ability to network boot the Ubuntu install
discs during FYM (I need to confirm this with the professor in charge of
that lab).  If the eeePC can boot off the network we should be able to get
linux on it during Free Your Machine.

Mark

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Ricky Wong <rickywong at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the BIOS doesn't recognize the USB drive, then I'm not sure what you can
> do. In any case, the drive needs to be bootable. You can't just put the ISO
> file on the drive; you actually have to put the install files and such on
> there.
>
> Here's a link for Ubuntu, so you have an idea. It may vary by distro but
> the general concept is still the same.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
>
> Ricky
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Vincent Sordo <vsordo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi my name is Vincent Sordo and I am a Cal Poly computer science
>> major. Over the summer I purchased an ASUS eee pc 1000he and tried to
>> put linux on it using a pen drive. I was unable to get my netbook to
>> recognize the pen drive and unable to run the iso. My question now is
>> how can I get linux onto my netbook? Thanks for all your help!
>> - Vincent Sordo
>>
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