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Android for my Acer Aspire One
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This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. My Acer Aspire One netbook no longer boots. In one case I blame Microsoft. I used update on my Win7 partition and now, no matter what I do, I end up with a blue screen. In another case, I messed up the drivers on the WinXP partition. I had graduated to a faster SDXC card and I tried to remove an unwanted device driver and I was not careful. It is the same story for the WinXP partition, blue screen. My 2008 Acer Aspire One is a nice piece of hardwa three USB ports, two SD ports, Ethernet, a 600x1024 screen & an Intel Atom CPU. It now has 1.5 GB RAM installed. It originally came with an 8 GB Intel Z-P230 SSD system drive that was sadly deficient. I have replaced that with a nominally 32 GB SuperTalent SSD, that is pretty solid. That much storage allowed me to partition and dual boot WinXP and Win7. Now that Windows only gives a blue screen, wisdom dictates that I keep the hardware and throw away Windows. I have a couple of different Linux that boot from partitions on an external USB HHD, but Linux is not the answer. Like Windows, I think Android thrives on an internal system drive. Readers comments on installing Android on my x86 Acer netbook are most welcome. I know that x86 versions of Android are out there but I am hoping for some high numbers like KitKat 4.4, or whatever. Help me please with an ISO URL. |
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Android for my Acer Aspire One
Norm X wrote on 7/4/2015 11:53 PM:
Hi, This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. My Acer Aspire One netbook no longer boots. In one case I blame Microsoft. I used update on my Win7 partition and now, no matter what I do, I end up with a blue screen. In another case, I messed up the drivers on the WinXP partition. I had graduated to a faster SDXC card and I tried to remove an unwanted device driver and I was not careful. It is the same story for the WinXP partition, blue screen. My 2008 Acer Aspire One is a nice piece of hardwa three USB ports, two SD ports, Ethernet, a 600x1024 screen & an Intel Atom CPU. It now has 1.5 GB RAM installed. It originally came with an 8 GB Intel Z-P230 SSD system drive that was sadly deficient. I have replaced that with a nominally 32 GB SuperTalent SSD, that is pretty solid. That much storage allowed me to partition and dual boot WinXP and Win7. Now that Windows only gives a blue screen, wisdom dictates that I keep the hardware and throw away Windows. I have a couple of different Linux that boot from partitions on an external USB HHD, but Linux is not the answer. Like Windows, I think Android thrives on an internal system drive. Readers comments on installing Android on my x86 Acer netbook are most welcome. I know that x86 versions of Android are out there but I am hoping for some high numbers like KitKat 4.4, or whatever. Help me please with an ISO URL. If you're evaluating Linux (and which one) over a USB connection, that will make it sluggish. I find linux mint 17 cinnamon much like windows and runs great on my laptop. I'm writing in windows 8 now, but I dual boot linux to play a lot and to keep me up to speed in the off chance I dump windows one day. I have booted Linux and stayed there for days almost forgetting I was in linux. I kinda like the font they chose over what windows does, easier on my eyes. |
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Android for my Acer Aspire One
Norm X wrote:
Readers comments on installing Android on my x86 Acer netbook are most welcome. I know that x86 versions of Android are out there but I am hoping for some high numbers like KitKat 4.4, or whatever. Modern Android ( 4.0) requires a GPU else things are very very slow. I don't know what GPU you have, but I imagine the drivers are nonexistent or terrible. Android is also not terribly fun without a touchscreen. It's possibly someone has cooked up a build of Android for your particular machine, but otherwise I wouldn't expect a smooth experience with a generic x86 Android. I'd stick with a lightweight distro of Linux, which is more likely to be usable on your hardware. Theo |
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On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:53:05 -0700, Norm X wrote:
This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. Not sure, but I don't think it made it to comp.mobile.android. There's a space in your Newsreader header. -- s|b |
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"s|b" writes:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:53:05 -0700, Norm X wrote: This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. Not sure, but I don't think it made it to comp.mobile.android. There's a space in your Newsreader header. Looks fine to from here. (The syntax is quite liberal about whitespace) -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ |
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Theo Markettos wrote:
Norm X wrote: Readers comments on installing Android on my x86 Acer netbook are most welcome. I know that x86 versions of Android are out there but I am hoping for some high numbers like KitKat 4.4, or whatever. Modern Android ( 4.0) requires a GPU else things are very very slow. I don't know what GPU you have, but I imagine the drivers are nonexistent or terrible. Android is also not terribly fun without a touchscreen. It's possibly someone has cooked up a build of Android for your particular machine, but otherwise I wouldn't expect a smooth experience with a generic x86 Android. I'd stick with a lightweight distro of Linux, which is more likely to be usable on your hardware. Exactly! Norm X's Acer Aspire One (AAO) probably came with such a lightweight distro of Linux, namely 'Linpus', a (Red Hat) Fedora derivative, at least that's what my AAO had. It 'even' came with a re-install CD. The AAO doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, but it shouldn't be too hard to convert the CD to a bootable image on a USB memory-stick. Anyway, Android sucks, there's no reason to infest a perfectly good netbook with it! :-) |
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Richard Kettlewell wrote:
"s|b" writes: On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:53:05 -0700, Norm X wrote: This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. Not sure, but I don't think it made it to comp.mobile.android. There's a space in your Newsreader header. Looks fine to from here. (The syntax is quite liberal about whitespace) No the syntax is *not* quite liberal. It's only that many News servers or/and newsreaders are 'liberal' about accepting/processing crap from non-compliant newsreaders. But to be fair, we can't expect them to already get it after only three-plus decades, can we!? :-( |
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On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 21:10:51 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Looks fine to from here. (The syntax is quite liberal about whitespace) Learned something new today! :-) -- s|b |
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Android for my Acer Aspire One
Frank Slootweg writes:
Theo Markettos wrote: Norm X wrote: Readers comments on installing Android on my x86 Acer netbook are most welcome. I know that x86 versions of Android are out there but I am hoping for some high numbers like KitKat 4.4, or whatever. snip I'd stick with a lightweight distro of Linux, which is more likely to be usable on your hardware. Exactly! Norm X's Acer Aspire One (AAO) probably came with such a lightweight distro of Linux, namely 'Linpus', a (Red Hat) Fedora derivative, at least that's what my AAO had. The OP might also consider antiX. I found it worked very well on a small Atom-based system with internal SD flash drive. http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page snip -- Ben. |
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Frank Slootweg writes:
Richard Kettlewell wrote: "s|b" writes: On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:53:05 -0700, Norm X wrote: This message is X-posted to alt.comp.hardware & comp.mobile.android. Not sure, but I don't think it made it to comp.mobile.android. There's a space in your Newsreader header. Looks fine to from here. (The syntax is quite liberal about whitespace) No the syntax is *not* quite liberal. It's only that many News servers or/and newsreaders are 'liberal' about accepting/processing crap from non-compliant newsreaders. But to be fair, we can't expect them to already get it after only three-plus decades, can we!? :-( What did you have in mind? -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ |
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