OK, if you have a problem using the isotousb, please try using the unetbootin utility, we are testing this out with this release at the moment and if we don't find any issues we will change this guide to reflect that. You can run this utility from windows or Linux and just use the iso file you downloaded from this site. You will need to follow the rest of the guide once you have got the usb key working.


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I've followed the 'idiots guide' & made bootable usb formatted as ext2 with eeebuntu standard iso & I've got the bios set to boot usb device 1st but when I try it, I get a quickly flashed message: Missing operating system.
and then it boots into winxp (I'm using a 1000h with 80 gb drive). So something is missing in my setup...any ideas? thanks
(btw: when I look at what's on the usb on another ubuntu laptop, all the right files seem to be there)
EDIT: I've since got the nbr version loaded via UNetbootin technique (formatted usb with gparted to fat32, used winxp version of UNetbootin).
However, when installing the nbr version I can choose to use a portion of the 40gb partition that xp inhabits or I can use the whole system 80gb (this is a 1000h, so has 80gb drive partitioned in two 40gb parts) What I wanted was to put nbr on one 40gb partition and leave xp on the other until I'm satisfied nbr can do everything I want, then remove xp likely. Possible or not?

Hi, everyone! I also got quite a stupid problem - when i'm trying to set my USB stick as a HDD in the "Hard Disk Drives" section of the BIOS, like it was written in "the idiot's guide", I find out that there is no such option. There are only 2 lines: HDD-SM... and HDD-SS, and no line referring to a USB device. In the "Boot Device Priority" section, though, the device is visible - there are 3 lines:
1st boot device - USB Kingston...
2nd boot device - HDD-SM...
3rd boot device - ATAPI CD-ROM (this line is actually killing me - i'm using a EEEPC901, without any ROM drives, internal or external)

AND, despite the fact that the USB device is nr1 in the "Boot device priority", the system just boots Xandros from the HDD, fully ignoring the USB drive. There are no error messages, the indicator on the USB stick just flashes a couple of times and then Xandros starts. By the way, the LiveCD was created using windows XP in the Unetbootin app, cuz I had several problems while trying to get it working with isotostick.sh. Oh, and when checking the stick with gparted, the flag Boot is set and the drive is formatted to fat16
Somebody, please, tell me, what the hell could the problem be? My only thought for now was to get a different USB stick somewhere, but that's an emergency variant.

Hmm very odd indeed.

I was going to suggest an error with the boot flag but uve mentioned that......

Ive had no first had experience with unetbootin so im gonna have a go this week and update the guide to reflect if I think its easier than the syslinux way.

Have you tried putting the USB in every possible slot ?

Might sound silly but I can only boot off the USB on my 2 right USB slot not the one on the left side.

Well, i've managed to get the nasty thing working by hitting ESC at the point when BIOS starts. A menu appears, which allows you to choose the boot device manually. So the trouble was not that the USB won't boot at all, but that it didn't boot automatically. Right now I got myself an even nastyer problem - the installation has gone till 100%, the screen blacked out and it's been like that for about half an hour now. I've never installed Linux before, so maybe this is normal and i'm just paranoid?
P.S. Man, i gotta stop the silly panic and go get drunk - after "hanging" several more minutes, the system got resurrected again .

so its working for you now?

Well, the system started normally, though it did hang while restarting after the installation, so i had to turn the machine off with the On/Off switch and turn it on again. I haven't tested it yet, and i still gotta install the custom kernels, but i have a feeling that it should run like a charm. Thanks for the distro, guys

Glad to hear its now working!!!!

You will need to install the custom kernel to fix afew of the issues their then your good to go!

It really does work quite faster and is more user-friendly than the stock EEEPC Linux. It's just like an old "Dnepr" refrigerator - it's solid, it's cool, and it doesn't break down!

The unetbootin utility works great and the eeebuntu looks and works much greater. Thanks for this powerfull piece of software!

I think Unetbootin needs to be added into the FAQ's on the site. It does work a hell of a lot better than the script

First, thank all of you for eeebuntu and this forum, and thanks also for the guide.

The following is based on my own experience in a eeepc 900, just a couple of days ago, and is intended to ease installation.

1. I think it's better writing web addresses than hyperlinks to files, as some pdf-readers can't manage hyperlinks.

2. Formatting usb drive to ext2 just didn't work for me. This must be fat32.

3. Setting-up the BIOS is not necessary at all. Just hit ESC on the first screen once the eeepc is turned on (eeePC logo) and a nice boot device menu is prompted.

4. The address of the array's public key doesn't work.

Thanks for the feedback miguelo..... Im awarew of these changes now

The kernel update is relevent for the 901 + series
the guide will soon be hosted in a blog and the pdf is a temporary measure.

we not recommend to use unetbootin to create the USB live rather than gparted and finally

the link to array .org doesnt work due to adamm updating the site.

I can confirm that it does not work with ext2 but with fat32. With ext2, I get "Missing operating system" and it boots Xandros from the SSD.

Edit: Some comments on the user guide... It's very good, but as an experienced user of GNU/Linux, I felt quite stupid when I tried to follow it today. That was before I realized that you should make the bootable USB stick on another Ubuntu system instead of Xandros. First, it took me a while to be able to find out how to start a terminal, then I did not understand why I couldn't find gparted in the apt repository... Then I finally thought that the guide is aimed to run on another Ubuntu pc.

Conclusion: Maybe it would be a good idea to mention in the guide that you should follow the first steps on a second pc, or maybe make a howto on fixing it from Xandros?

By the way... After I have played around with my awesomely new EeePC 901 with Ubuntu for one day, I can only say that I am completely amazed. It's so totally brilliant! Well, of course, I haven't had time to do any advanced stuff, like fiddling with the webcam etc... But so far, so amazed... Great job, both you guys and the designers at ASUS. Creds!

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