I’ve finally reinstalled Fedora 10 on the Acer Aspire One, and documented the changes that I’ve made. Going over what I wrote earlier, I noticed that I was missing a few things, sorry! I’ve now gone through the document properly again, and things should be corrected. This time I tried a spinoff of Fedora 10, an XFCE Live CD. It works better than the one with GNOME. Give it a shot, and let me know how it went. :) To all the people who have sent in suggestions as to how the system can be improved, thank you! A lot of people are getting the benefit of that information. :)
So, to cut it short, the post Fedora 10 on the Acer Aspire One is now updated so that it comes with XFCE. :)
I appreciate your time posting this. I’ve installed the XFCE spin of F10 on my AAO, also, and I went through _most_ of the steps you suggested. But I’m having some problems.
After the first install and update, I installed the madwifi drivers, then went through the process you detailed to re-format as ext2, then I went though the “Optimizing Fedora 10″ section. On reboot, I got “Error 11: unrecognized device string” and it exits to a grub screen.
I reinstalled, reupdated, reinstalled madwifi drivers, skipped the ext2 process (since there were some errors returned I wasn’t expecting, I thought that must’ve been the problem), and went on through “Optimizing…” again. Reboot; same error 11 “unrecognized device string”.
My ISP connection is _wickedly_ slow, so I am loathe to go through the whole process again. Do you have any ideas how I can fix this from the command line at the grub screen? Or am I doomed to re-install again?
Thanks.
Comment by Jeff Melton — December 29, 2008 @ 00:11
Thank you immensely for the time you and others have put into this forum. Despite some problems with Wifi, I have the XFCE spin currently running on my AAO.
Comment by Jeffrey — January 10, 2009 @ 19:53