SimplyMepis works quite well

scottro · 2008-10-23

I just tried the latest (8.0, still Beta, I believe) SimplyMepis on the 160GB Aspire One and it works beautifully. Webcam seems better than it does in Fedora and Ubuntu Ibex. Wireless works out of the box. Sound works out of the box. The only issue is the actual creation of a USB drive. You have to do a bit of work, and it really helps to have another machine with a working CD, which makes it simple. See [url="http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showpost.php?p=125231&postcount=2"]http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showp ... ostcount=2[/url] for the workaround, which involves adding a fromiso= line to the menu.lst on the USB.

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I just tried the latest (8.0, still Beta, I believe) SimplyMepis on the 160GB Aspire One and it works beautifully. Webcam seems better than it does in Fedora and Ubuntu Ibex. Wireless works out of the box. Sound works out of the box.

The only issue is the actual creation of a USB drive. You have to do a bit of work, and it really helps to have another machine with a working CD, which makes it simple.

See http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/showp ... ostcount=2 for the workaround, which involves adding a fromiso= line to the menu.lst on the USB.

scottro, Oct 23, 2008

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