Options for installing Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire One

This wiki page was my starting point: Aspire One. It had details on tweaks you might also need to do. The Ubuntu Netbook Remix image is also mentioned on that guide. x

There are other pages which helped me too:

• Installation from USB disk – This page showed me how I could turn my USB stick into a bootable Ubuntu installer. From using UNetbootbin to liveusb to the manual approach, you could learn so much from this page.
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix from flashdrive gives a guide on installing a persistent flash drive install of Ubuntu 8.10.
• Live USB Pendrive Persistent install page gives you the methods to do just that.
• Aspire One User is a forum where you could interact with various users of the Acer Aspire One. It’s great reading the threads here because you have a better idea of what to do when you’re considering to install Ubuntu on your computer.

I learned so much within these past 24 hours just by wanting to tweak my own unit of the Aspire One. For one thing, it really is difficult to go by without a DVD drive. I am very much used to installing Linux using DVDs or CDs. Another thing to note is the difference of a boot from USB drive and having a USB start disk. At least from what I just experienced a start disk seems to still need a CD/DVD drive where you have to put the disc from which the computer will find the Linux kernel image. Another thing I realized is that using the Acer Aspire One might not be totally easy because of sound and wireless issues. Another thing is that the Ubuntu Netbook Remix installer is based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I might have to check also for the compatibility of other packages I am used to on my current laptop.