I have a Samsung N150plus netbook on which ubuntu 11.04 with unity interface was installed, but i was getting bored with the ease of ubuntu. If I want easy , I will boot up my Mac with Mac os X Lion or my windows XP machine.
So i decided to go with Arch Linux, the bleeding edge distro. As netbooks lack the optical drive i went with usb install option.
I have been using "unetbootin" for installing ubuntu etc from usb media, but somehow i was unable to install Arch using this, The error i was getting was "
after few hours of trying to find a solution i decided to go with the old and trusted dd command.
and it worked!
The command i used was
dd if=Arch---.iso of=/dev/sdb
for Arch---.iso you need to use the Arch iso file you downloaded and for of you need to find out the id of your usb device.
Booted and installed , am now trying to get a GUI working on it, yes it boots into plain old command prompt and no GUI is installed :)
Not for the faint hearted....
Regards,
Ishan
So i decided to go with Arch Linux, the bleeding edge distro. As netbooks lack the optical drive i went with usb install option.
I have been using "unetbootin" for installing ubuntu etc from usb media, but somehow i was unable to install Arch using this, The error i was getting was "
Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds". after few hours of trying to find a solution i decided to go with the old and trusted dd command.
and it worked!
The command i used was
dd if=Arch---.iso of=/dev/sdb
for Arch---.iso you need to use the Arch iso file you downloaded and for of you need to find out the id of your usb device.
Booted and installed , am now trying to get a GUI working on it, yes it boots into plain old command prompt and no GUI is installed :)
Not for the faint hearted....
Regards,
Ishan
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