How to instal fedora 8 directly on may aspire one?

[Altxutxu]

Hello, I have problems with my aspire one, I can`t see videos on it , and i have instaled VCL, , I think my problem is the VCL is for FEDORA 8, AND I HAVE NOT INSTALED IT, how i can instaled FEDORA, thanks

 

[ammoQ]

Since Linpus is Fedora 8 based, installing FC8 most likely will get you NOTHING but driver problems. If you follow the VLC installation instructions in this forum, it should work. At least it does here )

 

[RockDoctor]

Instead of Fedora 8, I installed Fedora 10 Alpha1. For the record, I've got the 120GB HDD AA1. On my desktop PC (which runs Fedora and Ubuntu) I downloaded the iso, used livecd-iso-to-disk to create a bootable flash drive with the live image, booted the flash drive, and installed from it.

I also installed Ubuntu 8.04.1. The procedure is similar (download the iso, use a special installer to write it to a bootable usb flash drive, then boot off the flash drive and install to the HDD. .

Both distros seem to be working well for me.

 

[sideways]

Easiest way is to transfer the LiveCD iso image to USB (from a linpus terminal), boot that and if you like what you see click the 'Install to Hard Disk' icon. I've tested Fedora 8 and Fedora 10 alpha, both work well but you need some extra work to get wifi working.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

However, vlc install on Linpus (a subset of Fedora) is trivial, so no need to install a new OS just for that

sudo rpm -Uhv [url]http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm[/url]
sudo yum install vlc

 

[maly82]

Hi there if You have some troubles to play any videos follow my guide on this forum here is an adress for that viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2534

Hope You will not be dissapointed with that

Cheers

 

[scottro]

Sideways, what was the latest kernel in the F10 that you used? Wireless should actually work out of the box with the 2.6.27 kernel, though the old sysctl options for the LED lights seem to be gone. (Using the ath5k module).

 

[sideways]

Sideways, what was the latest kernel in the F10 that you used? Wireless should actually work out of the box with the 2.6.27 kernel, though the old sysctl options for the LED lights seem to be gone. (Using the ath5k module).

Hi scottro, you sound familiar

I used the 2.6.27 kernel supplied with Fedora 10 alpha. Wifi did partially work - I could scan for access points ok, but NetworkManager had the usual difficulty with connecting to a secured point. To be honest I didn't play with it too much since F10 alpha was very slow (I think that's due to debug features in the alpha release)
Fedora 8 LiveCD pretty nicely except I couldn't get audio. If I do a full install I'll play around.

One other point with fedora is that the fonts may appear too big, this is due to an incorrect dpi setting in System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Apperance -> Fonts -> Details..., it should be 96dpi

 

[scottro]

Yes, it's me just, errm, rolling <cough cough> along.

Ahhh, NetworkManager. And you folks wonder why I don't use it. Although to be fair, it might have been Gnome, or the fact that it's Alpha, etc. etc. However, if I put Fedora on (I bought the 8 GB version--logic is that it will be obsolete in months, so I went for the very cheapest) I will probably simply use wpa_supplicant and scripts.

This is what happens with the ath5k module from 2.6.27. (Tested with Fedora's, Ubuntu's and a vanilla kernel.)
Start wpa_supplicant and get an OK. Then, one gets one of those ioctl errors, which at first, made me think it didn't really recognize the card. However, despite that error, the card works perfectly.

On the down side, the two sysctl options seem to be gone from the 2.6.27 kernels, meaning you can't get the LED lights working. (I haven't researched if they've been replaced by other variables, dropped, or simply overlooked at the moment.)

Sooo, within a few months, most distributions will probably support the card out of the box.

 

[rkx5]

I did it.
It's works fine
check it out

 

[RockDoctor]

I used the 2.6.27 kernel supplied with Fedora 10 alpha. Wifi did partially work - I could scan for access points ok, but NetworkManager had the usual difficulty with connecting to a secured point. To be honest I didn't play with it too much since F10 alpha was very slow

The later Fedora 2.6.27 kernels seem to work better; I'm currently using 2.6.27-0.295.rc5.git2.fc10.i686 and the latest updates from the Rawhide repositories, and have no problems at all connecting wirelessly to a secured access point via NetworkManager. I performed my initial round of updates over a wired connection, but NM hasn't given me any problems since.

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Rock Doctor