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Post by ricardojr on Jan 26, 2022 10:06:15 GMT
Hi everybody. I've just joined your community. I'm knew to the Bodhi Linux and a very limited experience with Linux in general.
Hi have a (very ) old NetBook Asus eeePC 1000He that was already earmarked for the recycle bin. However I took pity on it and decide to revive it with a 32 bits Linux distro. I checked the "market" and one that I decided to try was Bodhi. But I couldn't boot it from the installation live USB. I followed the instructions and used Rufus on another computer. The thing is I'm able to start the intstaller, but when it goes for the installation says it could not find the the installation live media. It's like it's no finding the USB drive. And I can only make it to boot initially from the USB accessing the BIOS at start up and "forcing" it to boot from there. If I just leave it for the normal boot, even though the 1st priority is set for the USB drive, it still boots from the hard drive. This happened as well when I tried to install Q4OS, and the only one that worked so far was Slax. But I believe that this one is somewhat different...
Anyone has some suggestion? Thank you in advance...
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cooler
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Post by cooler on Jan 26, 2022 13:09:11 GMT
Hello
Not sure if it can help you but you could try to write the Bodhi ISO using Rufus in dd mode (and not in ISO).
Good luck!
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Post by ricardojr on Jan 26, 2022 17:19:48 GMT
Hi, thank you for the reply. I did... both ways (dd and iso) with Bodhi and Q4OS and the result was exactly the same.
I was thinking maybe if I install Rufus on the existing Windows XP installed on the NetBook (it would have to be 32 bit version right?) and then burn the dd version of Bodhi on the hard drive. I know that this would wipe out the existing Windows OS, but I don't really care for that. It is going to happen sooner or later as I am intended on installing a Linux distro. I just wanted to try out a few different distros first. Not that I have much choice being a 32 bit Intel Atom with only 1Gb ram.
But still, I think it is strange that it isn't detecting the USB for the installation... Could it be that, there is something wrong/missing in the BIOS drives. I recall that a long, long way back when I first start to use that machine it caught some virus from a USB drive that I used, and, I'm not sure but I think the anti-virus software installed deleted something... Can we get Linux Drivers somewhere for this machine?
By the way, the keyboard was not configured properly as well, as it is a Portuguese Keyboard, but I assume that that's because it didn't actually installed anything.
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Post by Stella on Jan 30, 2022 23:43:59 GMT
Can you burn a dvd? I find some older netbooks won't install from usb but they will from a dvd (but you need a usb dvd drive to do that if it's a netbook). As mentioned above, if you burn the usb the way suggested it should work. Bodhi is the best thing to install on a netbook. Anything else is too slow.
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Post by sparkill on Jan 31, 2022 0:22:21 GMT
But still, I think it is strange that it isn't detecting the USB for the installation... Is your USB 2.0 or 3.0? Old hardware supports USB 2.0 max 8GB More than that it will not detect it. |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Jan 31, 2022 5:31:47 GMT
Old hardware supports USB 2.0 max 8GB More than that it will not detect it. That's not exactly right. USB 2.0 can certainly support drives over 8GB, literally thousands of GB are fine. Old hardware may only have USB2 ports, but can still use devices that support USB3, as long as they also support USB2, which means the majority of thumb-drives (pen-drive/flashdrive) and external hard drives (i.e. 2TB western digital passport, or any drive connected to a usb to ide/sata adapter). Anything with official USB 3.0 superspeed logo also must support USB2, its against spec to be USB3 only.
There is a 4.3GB filesize limit on FAT32 formatted drives. Single layer DVD (DVD-5) also only holds that much. But I never heard of an limit close to 8GB limit on anything besides dual layer DVD (DVD-9), so not sure what you mean?
But in regards to the actual OP problem, that machine is netbook with no optical drive, so unable to use optical disc instead of USB to resolve. And since they tried iso and dd mode, I don't know that's left to try!
@ridcoado if you can go into the computer (BIOS) settings and see if there are any options to disable EFI or set it for legacy boot or something like that, disable secure boot, etc, if they have any such settings, thats my only real idea. After that I'd try plugging my model number, along with the word linux, into web search.
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Post by ricardojr on Jan 31, 2022 22:48:58 GMT
Hi guys, thank you so much for coming for the rescue. But I finally sorted the issue and already manage to get it to run. Happy days...  It was a silly thing really... It was all about the USB drive that I was using. It was strange because, as I said before, I was able to get to initially boot from the BIOS, but then it couldn't find it. Even when I sequentially accessed the BIOS again, it was not there any more... But I remember to have "tampered" with that USB drive before on another computer that I have, with Ubuntu installed, and done something to it that I shouldn't. The only reason I got to run Slax OS, was because it was on another USB drive. I now used that same one to create the Bodhi booting USB and worked fine. I just have this 2 USB drives available for the time being, because I'm out at sea (I'm a seafarer). I will try Bodhi out now. So far I have only tried it without installing, and for a very short time. I still have to sort the Wifi, but that isn't related to the installation, I think. It stopped connecting to the network on my ship, once I tried Slax. I think the server is "picking" on it and preventing from connecting. I'll try to figure it out with the ships electrician. By the way, Rufus didn't work on the Windows XP that is originally installed on this NetBook. According to the site it should run on 64 and 32 bits. Anyway, that OS is a goner... eheheheh... it's just a matter of time. Again guys, thank you for reaching out.  |
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Post by ligoxi on Feb 4, 2022 9:32:33 GMT
Dream jobs for me:
Working on a lighthouse
Working on a ship that rarely sees land for long periods...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2022 12:22:50 GMT
Dream jobs for me: Working on a lighthouse Working on a ship that rarely sees land for long periods...
...welllllll... i totally agree with you. That would definetly something for me too.
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