All's Well That Ends Well (Mostly)
Blog The problem is, they still don't have a VIA Chrome 9 display driver, so the LiveCD won't boot. I have installed previous Fedora releases on the 2133 by using the DVD installer in text mode, rather than a LiveCD, then after the installation is...
[September 7, 2009, 9:04]
Dream Linux 3.5 - Results and Summary
Blog It installed smoothly, got the display resolution exactly right on both the LiveCD and after installation, and although it was using the vesa driver rather than the openchrome driver, everything was working ok.
[March 9, 2009, 9:50]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog Once the LiveCD is up and running, there is a "Device Driver Utility" on the desktop which will tell you what hardware devices it sees, and whether it has the drivers for them. I was a bit pleased and impressed that the LiveCD booted properly on...
[March 20, 2009, 12:13]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
Blog When I tried it previously, it appeared that the LiveCD didn't boot properly. It appears now that I might just not have been waiting long enough, because when I tried it again this morning, and paid careful attention to what it was doing so that I...
[February 3, 2009, 13:48]
Dream Linux 3.5 - An Excellent New Release
Blog The desktop of the LiveCD is equally "terse" - everything is there, but even an experienced user is likely to need some time to look it all over, figure out what is what, and decide that "DL Installer" is what you want (as opposed to "OEM...
[March 4, 2009, 13:56]
PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Released
Blog All of these are installed with the base system from the LiveCD. Although it uses the same installation process as Mandriva, for example, the number of questions has been reduced, and equally important for my HP 2133 there are a couple more display...
[March 13, 2009, 13:45]
openSuSE 11.2
Blog Installation from the LiveCD was reasonably easy. It seems to me that with previous openSuSE releases, if you installed from the LiveCD on a system which did not have an internet connection (such as a laptop or netbook which depends on WiFi that is...
[November 16, 2009, 20:10]
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog But after trying absolutely everything I could possibly imagine to get the LiveCD to boot, I finally gave up a week or so ago. The Ubuntu WIki indicates that you should be able to install 8.10 on the Mini-Note by forcing it to use the vesa graphic...
[February 15, 2009, 16:00]
Mandriva One 2010.0 (including Moblin UI)
Blog Device driver support is excellent, there was not a single device on any of my systems which wasn't supported in the LiveCD installation, including the various ATI graphic controllers and Atheros WiFi controllers.
[November 12, 2009, 7:38]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Also, I have not made any extraordinary efforts to get any of these distributions to work on it, yet; all I have done is boot their LiveCD distribution, and if that comes up and is usable then I go ahead and try to install.
[January 27, 2009, 13:06]
SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 Released
Blog You should be prepared for a long download and DVD burn process, because there is no "LiveCD" version, you have to get the entire 3.6 GB ISO image. Although the installation was no problem, it was left using the "fbdev" display driver, at a...
[March 25, 2009, 13:57]
SimplyMEPIS 8 Update Released
Blog As it happened, the first system I installed it on was my HP 2133 Mini-Note, and I was pleased to see that the LiveCD boot menu had a new "Small" option, which says it is for "most netbook and VM installations".
[August 27, 2009, 8:17]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog If it happens you can get around it by choosing "Try Ubuntu without changes" from the LiveCD boot menu, then choose "Install" from the live desktop. I have not installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR), because it has serious performance problems...
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
Samsung NC20 - A Brief Encounter
Blog The Mandriva One 2009.1 (Spring) LiveCD booted just fine. So I booted the Fedora 11 LiveCD, and it too came up just fine. It turned out that I didn't even get far enough to worry about that, the UNR Live USB stick wouldn't boot properly, the...
[July 23, 2009, 10:25]
