Netbook
From charlesreid1
On March 28th I purchased a netbook, an Asus Eee 1001. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. This page documents some of the things I am doing with it.
Ubuntu
One of the first things to do when I received the netbook was to install Ubuntu on it. I did this by creating a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu, then booting the netbook fom that USB drive.
This was a little bit tricky, as the only computer available was a Mac. Creating a bootable USB for Linux from a Mac requires a couple of extra steps. I've documented everything here, along with references.
Obtaining a Linux USB Image
Obtain an .img file
Ubuntu may tell you which os, specifically, to use with your hardware
Creating Linux-Bootable USB fom Mac
Format your USB disk as FAT32 with MBR
Follow the steps to create MBR partition in fdisk
Then use dd to copy your Linux .img onto the mounted partition
Now you have a bootable USB
Booting the Asus from USB
Func+F2 at startup to enter the bios
Go to boot tab
Remove everything except external device
Save settings and restart
Hit escape to get boot menu
Pick USB drive, should work like a charm
If you get dropped into a BusyBox (ash) shell,
Or if you get a message that there is no bootable media,
Your USB drive is probably not formatted correctly
New Software
Note Taking
Installed everpad
Had issue with syncing
https://github.com/nvbn/everpad/issues/201
Had to install buncha stuff, cmake, qt4,
It all took a very long time