CentOS 4.6 on Acer Aspire One

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    luluchou

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    hi! all:
    i am survey 10~8.9 inch notebook now
    Acer Aspire One
    Does anyone try installing CentOS 4.6 on Acer Aspire One?
    thanks

    regards
    lulu
     
    luluchou, Aug 5, 2008
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    mgielissen

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    I tried the Centos 5.2 livecd, it hangs at boot
     
    mgielissen, Aug 5, 2008
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    I also tried the CentOS 5.5 LiveCD and had it hang at boot. Instead, I pre-installed Fedora 14 LiveCD (from usb installer). I extracted vmlinuz and initrd.img from the CentOS 5.5 DVD, placing them in root. Then I modified the grub loader (/boot/grub/menu.lst) by adding an entry for CentOS, as per the CentOS wiki:
    First, change the timeout to 5 from 0 to allow you to select your OS. Then add the following lines:

    title CentOS 5.5 Install
    root hd(0,0)
    kernel vmlinuz
    initrd initrd.img

    Since Fedora runs on ext4-formatted HD, but anaconda won't read from an ext4 HD, I put the CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso on a FAT32-formatted usb stick (at least 4GB). I then booted, selecting the CentOS install and pointing the loader to the usb drive (sdb1). The OS installed easily from there.
     
    radasil, Mar 29, 2011
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