Any Acer Aspire One tweaks or mods? im running linpus lite

[nathanm1991]

thank you for the help

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

No worries

[nathanm1991]

am now having to use the aa1 to download the iso as the laptop is slow as shit for downloading

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Doesn't matter how you download it as long as you transfer it to the Windows PC .. it would be too hard to use Linpus Lite to create the LiveUSB .. it'd be easy in peppermint, but.....

[nathanm1991]

lol

[nathanm1991]

well this is tedious im on 34% at the mo on the peppermint download.

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Is it the Peppermint site that's being slow ?

see your messages

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

For anyone else following this....

nathanm1991 informs me by PM that the LiveUSB created OK, but is listed in the boot device selection screen as a USB FDD rather than a USB HDD .. so there's no option but to use a different USB stick.

For some reason the AA1 is sensitive to which USB sticks it "likes" .. seeing some as a USB Floppy Disk Drive rather than a Hard Disk Drive.

[Jocklad 1]

 Interesting.

 Never had a problem using USB sticks between different machines.

 Jocklad 

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

It's the Acer Aspire One .. not so much the USB stick.

For some reason the AA1 BIOS just doesn't "like" some USB sticks .. they work fine for storage, but refuse to be bootable.

[EDIT]

Actually if you 'dd' an isohybrid image to them they'll usually work .. but the Peppermint 3 ISO wasn't an isohybrid image, and you can't 'dd' in Windows.

[chemicalfan]

I've had similar issues with USB sticks before, now I tend to just use a DVD-RW to avoid any issues
(obviously not applicable to netbooks )

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

LiveCD's are GREAT for recovery and as an installation media .. not so good (as a LiveUSB with persistence) in the "test drive" role.

And yeah, there's also the netbook/no optical drive issue

On other PC's I've obviously had the "the PC won't boot from LiveUSB/removable media at all" issue .. but only (so far) on the AA1 have I had the issue where it will boot "some" sticks but not others, seeing some as FDD's and others as HDD's .. it's just odd like that 

But that's just the crazy a** world of computers we live in.....