Comments on: Installing Easy Peasy Linux on my Acer Aspire One netbook

By: paddy688

paddy688 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:38:48 +0000

Thank so much for this. I have given my AAo a new lease of life – it looks so cool in Dec 2011. Much better than Kuki. Even WiFi & Skype work 1st time!

By: JL

JL — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:50:10 +0000

has anyone successfully configured a Siera Aircard 250U 3G/4G to run with Easy Peasy? Tried to get it to work with Knoppix Live from a USB flash drive with no luck. Please advise. THanks

By: An EasyPeasy makeover for my Acer Aspire One

An EasyPeasy makeover for my Acer Aspire One — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:50:41 +0000

[...] website, although the instructions for installing it are not all that clear. Instead I followed the instructions I found here on techandlife.com. I cut a corner by not bothering to make the recovery drive for Linpus – I was confident that [...]

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:09:31 +0000

Thank you so much for this article! I actually only used it to work out how to create the recovery USB drive for Linpus. I experienced difficulties which seem to have been experienced by many users – my Aspire One’s network centre stopped working and I couldn’t pick up wireless networks. I tried several fixes I found online but none worked and after months of just letting the machine sit unused I decided to try the final answer – use the recovery DVD. Only, part of the reason it had taken me so long to get to this point was that I didn’t have an external drive to put the DVD in, or a USB drive to use. By the time I got around to getting a USB drive I found it quite difficult to work out what I needed to do (and searching online confused the hell out of me). Your step-by-step instructions made it so easy, thank you so much! Now my machine is back up and running and connecting to the net – just in time to take it on a round-the-world trip Thanks!

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:09:03 +0000

That’s great! Nice to see that people are still getting something from this post.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:00:10 +0000

Thanks for the instructions, was really useful and worked first time with no problems- first time since I bought this netbook!!!

By: techandlife

techandlife — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:57:18 +0000

kat – sorry, I’ve never tried that. Instead of the flash drive, you would be using UNetbootin to install Easy Peasy on your external hard disk and then changing the boot order to boot up from that to install Easy Peasy on your netbook. Rather than mess with your external drive you might be better just to pick up a USB thumb drive. They’re really quite cheap.

By: kat

kat — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:12:24 +0000

can i use an external hard disk instead of a usb flash disk?

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:31:24 +0000

Glad you found the post helpful William. I’ve actually moved on to Ubuntu Netbook Edition (10.10) now as I had occasional problems connecting to my wireless network with Easy Peasy which I’ve never had with UNE. But if Easy Peasy is working for you that’s great.

By: William

William — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:52:03 +0000

Brilliant. I was about to chuck out my 18 month AA1 Netbook because the Installed Firefox browser had become hopelessly outdated and could not be updated, the built in software updater had stopped working and although supposed to it would not work with a 3Mobile Dongle. Then I came across your blog. I followed the instructions and to cut a long story short now have a cracking little piece of kit that in many respects is as good as a full size laptop. I’m delighted and really grateful to you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.