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Update - tonite I was able to successfully install mint BUT grub (apparently) failed to install.
One step forward and...
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My previous response was a little stronger than I intended. I guess I'm still disappointed in my purchase I made all those years ago. :D-Deozaan (December 17, 2020, 01:12 AM)
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HA! its all good, but its interesting to see how long the sour taste of a disappointing purchase lasts!!
One of the most lightweight Linux distributions (with a desktop environment) I remember having success with on my netbook was CrunchBang. Unfortunately it has been discontinued for many years now.
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seems like there are a couple of forks - here's one
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I installed Bodhi Linux on my Acer Aspire One, (Atom N270), and it ran well, you need the Legacy release.
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been looking at the setup again this morning and it appears that in order to install you must already have a suitably partitioned disk
I ran through the (mint) install again but used the options to setup partitions for boot and install...
still didn't work though...
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If your netbook is anything like the one I bought ~10 years ago then it was pretty much obsolete trash when it was brand new. Throw that thing in the dumpster and buy a $50-100 Raspberry Pi which is a zillion times better and can run modern 64-bit operating systems.-Deozaan (December 16, 2020, 11:19 AM)
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Or install a Linux distro on it and sell it on ebay for $50, then buy a new RasPi ... like I did last year ;)
But seriously for what it was back then, a sub-1kg netbook that could let me browse, email, etc, didn't cost the Earth (unlike other lightweight options), and that travelled at least 3 times around the planet (throw it in a neoprene sleeve then into the backpack) ... it was brilliant.
Especially when compared to my previous 15" laptop that weighed 2.5kg that I dragged around the planet, (through UK, Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China) ... that gets old very, very quickly.
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