OK. It’s about 60Mb more compressed so that’s maybe 300Mb more installed? Anyone do it and can say what exact initial installed size is, or total size after all recommended programs?
DO NOT download Pep4 from that page on 1st page of tutorial, they have a TORRENT for 32 + 64 bits at http://peppermintos.com/. I did it and it took 7 hours! Argh. No worries on burning flash, though now bought 6 little micro SD’s, because 7 yr old lappy doesn’t have provision to boot from jump drive.
SO size doesn’t necessarily mean anything (as far as installed size goes) … it may contain more drivers that won’t be used, etc.
Or as you say it MAY be bigger when installed :o
Hmm, both Pep3 and Pep4 CD’s hang on TRYOUT install to ACER 5003 lappy. Are there OS issues w my junky 7 yr old lappy? It does have that paella or whatever, PAE capacity- I tested it. Did MD5 on the 4 file, but not the discs (can’t fnd the MD5 for AMD64 Pep3- mine is Nov 2012, and they now only list July 2012. There’s an MD5 file on the disc, but it’s got 40 different ones. Maybe that disc burning prog- Brasero- is getting funky.
Are you saying you cannot run it in LiveCD mode (Try Peppermint) ?
Are there any error messages displayed ?
Are you using CDR’s or DVDR’s and not CDRW’s or DVD-RW’s ?
Can that laptop boot from USB stick … have you tried creating/booting a LiveUSB ?
No its just hanging and freezing on loading the Live image- doesn’t boot from USB. No message. Let me try another burning program
Hi mark.
It’s been 2 years since I started following your brilliant instructions to install Peppermint on my AOA 150, and then the fan fix which worked great. This time, when I installed Peppermint 4 the fan started getting busy again. I followed your fan fix instructions but get an error when I enter: sudo modprobe acerhdf. It says: ERROR: could not insert ‘acerhdf’: Invalid argument. The temp check command does not work either. It says: No such file or directory. The fan is still running. Any ideas please?
I hope this is the right place to post my question, or am I supposed to start a new topic?
Thanks.
Karen
Hi Karen … there’s a tutorial for Peppermint 4 here:
Tutorial - Installing PeppermintOS Four on an Acer Aspire One AOA110L ZG5
The acerhdf that’s in the default repos for Peppermint 4 is broken … but take a look at “Stage 10” for how to download/compile/install a fixed version under Peppermint 4.
There are also some other minor adjustments in the Peppermint 4 tutorial 
Hi Mark.
Thanks for getting back to me. I am probably posting in the wrong place!
Looking at the link, it is the same as the Stage 10 I followed which is on the Peppermint OS forum posted Fri Aug 30 2013. The errors I am getting are from following Stage 10. What should I do now?
Gimme a sec, and I’ll test them again.
OK seems to work fine for me ???
What kernel are you currently running … what’s the output from:
uname -a
It says:
Linux user-AOA150 3.8.0-30-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 20:54:42 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Karen … go to chat:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/chat/index.php
Problem solved in chat … the issue was that:-
options acerhdf interval=5 fanon=60000 fanoff=55000 kernelmode=1
had been written to:-
/etc/modprobe.d/local.conf
multiple times