Installing UNR on Aspire One

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OK, so the Windows 7 trial on this netbook was not quite what I anticipated. I think the resources are just not quite sufficient to run W7 comfortably. As they say, horses for courses...

I am busy installing UNR on the Aspire One. I have bought a 16Gb SD card to allow us to save some documents etc. without cluttering the 8Gb SSD.

My question is, when installing UNR, I have a choice of installing the OS on either the 8Gb SSD or the 16Gb SD card, which would provide the best experience in terms of speed etc, the SSD or the SD?

Best regards, Rudi
 
You need to install on the SSD because the Aspire One cannot boot of the SD Card (bummer). But anyway, read and apply the tweaks especially on using ram for temp files. I did this last week to my Aspire One (Ubuntu9.04) and the performance is what I've always wanted.

Also upgrade to 1,5GB RAM - its worth it.
 
OK I have read the installation guide (as per link posted earlier) but I am afraid I am still not clear what to select when installing UNR.

In Step 4 of 7 (Prepare disk space) I am presented with 3 options:

Where do you want to put Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04?
1. Install them side by side, chossing between then each startup
2. Use the entire disk (here I can select either the 8Gb ATA SSDPAMM008G1 or the MMC/SD card 16Gb )
3. Specify partitions manually (advanced)

Under option 3 I am presented with 3 "devices" ie.
1. /dev/mmcblk0p1 fat32 16034Mb size, 1312Mb used.
2. /dev/sda1 ext3 7674Mb size, 7281Mb used.
3. /dev/sda5 swap 394Mb size, 0Mb used.

If I right-click on each one, it presents me with options to edit or delete the partition. Selecting edit allows me to specify the partition size, "use as" for specifying the filesystem, a tickbox for requesting a format of the partition and lastly the "mount point", which is either /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, /srv, /opt or /usr/local.

Can someone please help me here in plain english. I am afraid my Linux skills aren't anything to write home about, so please be patient with me here. Here are the questions:

1. I thought that one could use the SSD and SD drives as a "single" drive, pretty much like the Linpus OS allowed one to do. I guess this is not possible any more with UNR?

2. I have noted that ext2 is preferred to prolong the SSD drive life, so do I select that as the "use as" type?

3. What is the mount point setting for?

4. Can someone please summarise the settings under each step please?

Many thanks for bearing with me here, and for your time to post some help :)

Cheers rudi
 
On my way out now so don't have time to explain. I assume you want to wipe Win7?

2. Use the entire disk (here I can select either the 8Gb ATA SSDPAMM008G1 or the MMC/SD card 16Gb )
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Would be the easiest option to simply install to 8GB SSD.

Under option 3 I am presented with 3 "devices" ie.
1. /dev/mmcblk0p1 fat32 16034Mb size, 1312Mb used.
2. /dev/sda1 ext3 7674Mb size, 7281Mb used.
3. /dev/sda5 swap 394Mb size, 0Mb used.

If I right-click on each one, it presents me with options to edit or delete the partition. Selecting edit allows me to specify the partition size, "use as" for specifying the filesystem, a tickbox for requesting a format of the partition and lastly the "mount point", which is either /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, /srv, /opt or /usr/local.

Can someone please help me here in plain english. I am afraid my Linux skills aren't anything to write home about, so please be patient with me here. Here are the questions:

1. I thought that one could use the SSD and SD drives as a "single" drive, pretty much like the Linpus OS allowed one to do. I guess this is not possible any more with UNR?

2. I have noted that ext2 is preferred to prolong the SSD drive life, so do I select that as the "use as" type?

3. What is the mount point setting for?

4. Can someone please summarise the settings under each step please?

Many thanks for bearing with me here, and for your time to post some help

Cheers rudi
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1. No idea, only way I know how to do that is via LVM but I don't think it's ideal for this.

2. No idea, but yes ext2 type should be ok.

3. / = root partition, kinda like C: in windows and you need this one
/swap = same as windows page file but linux dedicates a partition to it
/home = all user data and user program settings are stored here. You could set this as the mount point for the 16GB SD card but you will always have to boot with the card and will not really be able to remove it. Usefull to create a seperate /home partition as you could always just reinstall the OS without worrying about the data but I guess on a 8GB SSD it's not really a big deal and /home might not require it's own mount point as it will live happily under / (root)
You could always set the 16GB SD card with a mount point called /data if it's only for data storage. You can then later auto sync it to you home folder.
Don't worry about all the other mount points, no need to assign them to seperate partitions as they will happily live under / (root) just like home. So you only really need / & /swap, /home is optional & nice but no point on a 8GB SSD if you ask me.
 
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