First find the device node of your flash drive on the command line. To keep the memory stick, (hereafter called a flash drive) in its current size and still have the installer on it, follow the Formatting your drive with additional software for booting directions below.īefore you put the boot image (boot.img) and the netinstall image on your flash drive, make sure you have a recent backup of your data, both on your flash drive and on your Acer One. You can chose to re-partition your memory stick once you are done installing Debian with it. This method temporarily limits your memory stick to 256 MiB and destroys all data on it, but is simple to get working. It is critical that the kernel version in the image and the net-install ISO are the same! If they are not identical, the installer will not be able to detect your hardware and the installation will fail.Īs the Installation Manual states: "The easiest way to prepare your USB memory stick is to download hd-media/, and use "gunzip" to extract the 256 MiB image from that file." Get the latest daily build of Lenny (stable) image: drive image and the latest netinst ISO image. For other methods of installation please refer to the section Alternative Installation Methods or see the install guide. The below method outlines how to modify a flash drive putting the Debian installer on it. You will need a flash USB drive that is 256MB or larger. This might be your first choice since the Acer One does not ship with a CD-ROM drive.
One way to install Debian on the Acer Aspire One is to use a flash USB drive. There is additional information on installation of necessary drivers and other optimizations. This page is designed to help with installation of Debian GNU/Linux on the Acer Aspire One Netbook. (it is likely this will improve in later Debian releases) the 11 inch screen models (AO751h) are partially supported in lenny: the wired driver works and can be used for the installation although the installation will give you a working laptop, however many changes will be needed to get all hardware working (including the maximum 1366 x 768 resolution which is not supported by the lenny x.org).the second generation 10 inch screen models (A250) include unsupported wired Ethernet adapters (is this still true, or which is not natively supported) - you will need to install using the wireless card, and if needed, compile the wired network module later on.the original 9 inch screen models (numbered A110, A150) are well supported.Note that there are several versions of the Acer Aspire One: Enable Hardware Acceleration in Adobe Flash Plugin.Stop Firefox from Loading Pages in the Background.Reducing Disk Access for laptops with SSDs.Screen resolution: 9 and 10 inch models.Formatting your drive with additional software for booting.