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laptop - run XP/2000 from SD card
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Ok, a friend of mine asked me to fix his laptop, well as far as I can make out it is fucked, basicly when put in the HDD is undetectable wont boot wont be detected, the laptop works fine other than I believe the hard drive conection is fucked
so I thought bout running an OS by another means, usb? Sd? it has an inbuilt SD slot, I could install windows onto a 8gig or 16gig SD card and boot the laptop from that would it work? running an os by sd card, is there enough transfer rate on it? secondly could you run an os from a usb stick?
I know DSL (damn small linux) can run from SD/USB cards placed onto laptops, however I would prefer to run a Windows OS (as it'll be for laura)
Help....
so I thought bout running an OS by another means, usb? Sd? it has an inbuilt SD slot, I could install windows onto a 8gig or 16gig SD card and boot the laptop from that would it work? running an os by sd card, is there enough transfer rate on it? secondly could you run an os from a usb stick?
I know DSL (damn small linux) can run from SD/USB cards placed onto laptops, however I would prefer to run a Windows OS (as it'll be for laura)
Help....
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when I try to install windows xp on it, it gives a list,
Volume Unknown
USB volume (the one i'm installing windows from)
so it says there is an unknown volume but I can't get it to work.
Do it in USB. Have you troubleshooted the harddrive? Cables? Power supply? I have a harddrive that works perfectly, the cables/connectors are fine, but they don't work on the laptop through a external USB connection or any computer regardless of OS for that matter. Turns out it is just low power.
I got another laptop anyway but not sure what to do with this one,
why would the laptop not be seeing the hdd?
http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8
might be an interesting thought.
I was thinking the one with the acer aspire one, limpus linux, but it is a bit to basic. i want something as easy to work as windows, not much learning required, runs mozilla, movies, music and word/open office
you will have the most luck with ubuntu basically because it's the most popular version and therefore has the most support available.
They created a new version of Linpus which they put on the Linpus website last night I tried it but it looks kind of tacky and child like compared to the version they had on the ACER ONE.
What they had on the Acer looked good and worked well together - their new version is just a mashup of various free software off the net.
DG - pretty much all linux is is a mashup of various free software off the net, the advantage is that because all the different software is standardised you can chop and change, so if you don't like your word processor change to another which accepts the standards and you're good to go.
Whats Fredora (is that it) like? I was reading a little bit about that also.
The original Linpus on the netbook worked really well, email and contacts all nicely linked. Put in an SD card and the music player or photo software pops up. It also looked nice. All really good stuff for someone that doesn't know much about PC's
The new version is basically a piece of junk in comparison to the orignal version that came on the netbook. This version basically looks like it was designed to appeal to a child.
Thinking of now putting on Xbuntu, only problem is things like driver support for built in Wlan or webcam? can this be sorted?
I meant the original version as well, my friend used it on her netbook for about a week before she got fed up and despite it being nice as a toy for doing any kind of work or anything on it it was ridiculous. So I tried to add in some stuff through the backend but linpus just doesn't support enough to make it viable. I then put ubuntu on which worked great, but then stopped working due to a driver bug and since then it's been Windows 7.
Hellfire - you may come across trouble with those kind of things although generally all the popular chipsets for wlan are covered now, I don't know about webcam though.
It says the drivers installed, detects my card etc, however in the terminal it says
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
network DISABLED
rest of ti says wireless interface all the details of the card, so to me it says it is installed but disabled, how do i enable it?
also seems power isn't getting to it as when i press the wireless button on the laptop - no light/turns wireless on HELP PLEASE
sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep -i kill
and got some results but now i need to find our how to search for networks
turns out my RF Killswitch is on, just trying to work out how to turn it off, the wifi button does not turn it off, it gives me the message when i press it and do the sudo cat /var/log/messages -i kill
Jun 3 17:04:30 graeme-laptop kernel: [ 106.014026] kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.