So there I got my brand new netbook...

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BigAl-sa

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...and would you believe, the windows install was broken. Tried a couple of tricks, but couldn't even get into safe mode, so thought of making a bootable flash drive with the windows recovery disk on it. Looked like way too much PT, so made an Ubuntu 9.04 alternate bootable flash drive with USB Startup Creator, and boom 20 minutes later here I am writing from the said netbook from Ubuntu. I was wanting to run windows for a while, but got to this step way sooner than anticipated.

Just need to get all those nice to haves from Voria

:D
 
So far very impressed with vanilla Ubuntu 9.04 on the Samsung. Repartitioned disks and have still had no troubles yet. Will look into all the nice to haves soon!
 
Have fun BigAl-sa!!

Ubuntu is really nice. Hard to think it's actually free!
 
BigAl-sa said:
So far very impressed with vanilla Ubuntu 9.04 on the Samsung. Repartitioned disks and have still had no troubles yet. Will look into all the nice to haves soon!
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Would this be the Samsung NC10?
 
BigAl-sa said:
Yip
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Got mine on Friday, courtesy of Itai at Digital Addiction. Worked straight out the box, very impressive. I want to dual boot it, just need to find some time, so I'll pick your brains in due course, if I may
 
riscbroker said:
Got mine on Friday, courtesy of Itai at Digital Addiction. Worked straight out the box, very impressive. I want to dual boot it, just need to find some time, so I'll pick your brains in due course, if I may
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You're welcome, but there's really nothing to it. Gave my first lecture today using it, and it worked like a dream with the voria add-ons mentioned in my first post. It picked up the projector's resolution and set the LCD's resolution to match. The touchpad and scrollbar are taking a bit of getting used to though.

Going to dump the win partitions very soon.
 
So, being me, I had to try and fix the broken windows install. Using WinSetupFromUSB, I created a bootable windows flash drive on my desktop (uses a Linux boot ;)). I also added the contents of driver disk to a directory on the flash disk. I then reinstalled windows to its partition on the hard drive and installed all the drivers and software for the netbook.

I then fixed grub by using this Ubuntu Howto. I used a gParted Live disk created with USB Startup disk creator to get to a command line to run grub-install.

An interesting exercise...

Anyone know where the windows boot stuffies lives? When I go into windows, I first get a command line screen asking me which version of windows I want to boot into - the one I wiped or the current one I loaded.
 
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BigAl-sa said:
So, being me, I had to try and fix the broken windows install. Using WinSetupFromUSB, I created a bootable windows flash drive on my desktop (uses a Linux boot ;)). I also added the contents of driver disk to a directory on the flash disk. I then reinstalled windows to its partition on the hard drive and installed all the drivers and software for the netbook.

I then fixed grub by using this Ubuntu Howto. I used a gParted Live disk created with USB Startup disk creator to get to a command line to run grub-install.

An interesting exercise...

Anyone know where the windows boot stuffies lives? When I go into windows, I first get a command line screen asking me which version of windows I want to boot into - the one I wiped or the current one I loaded.
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You just mentioned one of the most important things about Linux.... fixing GRUB. Everyone's GRUB breaks some time or another, or you install Windows after Linux (if you even want to have Windows on it). Fixing it is actually so easy once you know how to do it.
 
Ok. This is the last time I'll wake up this thread (from the number of reads, some people may have found something interesting).

My final exercise (almost) was to connect to a 3G network. I bought a Vodafone K3565 modem from a Vodashop (R1067) and a SIM card from Clicks (R3). I used this howto to get all the correct drivers in place for a Vodacom connection. (had a bit of a fight with Vodacom getting the SIM activated and registered on Vodacom4me).
0. Install the necessary drivers as per the howto, from another Internet connection.
1. Activate the card by putting it in a phone and dialling 100 (it can only be done from a phone).
2. Put some airtime on the card.
3. Register with Vodacom4me while the card is still in the phone (my mistake not to do this - they activate your account and then send an SMS with login details).
4. Put the card in the modem, then continue as per the howto linked above.
5. All should work a-ok.

Things I should have done:
3a. Convert the airtime to data from another computer or the phone, otherwise you're ripped off at R1.91/MB
5b. If you want to use the Betavine app to send SMSes (you don't want to lose those 10 free SMSes do you?), you'll have to modify Firefox if you want to use it from that app as well.

Next project is to find out why Grub is not behaving as it did before I did the windows reinstall, but I promise I won't wake this thread up again ;)
 
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Im using Ubuntu 9.04 with the Vodafone B970 wireless router......and have my PS3 and iPhone connected at the same time. Works a real treat!

The B970 can be used as a USB modem as well, but it was extremely easy to set up a wireless network in Ubuntu.
 
kingrob said:
Im using Ubuntu 9.04 with the Vodafone B970 wireless router......and have my PS3 and iPhone connected at the same time. Works a real treat!

The B970 can be used as a USB modem as well, but it was extremely easy to set up a wireless network in Ubuntu.
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I wish I could use the wireless connectivity of the NC10 too, but I have a wired ADSL modem and don't feel like hauling out the shekels for a wireless modem/router. If someone has any ideas as how to turn one of the ports on my modem to wireless, I'm all ears.
 
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