[SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

[Thomas C Gilliard]

One problem with acer aspire one:

It will not boot from an SD slot (see notes below), but works well with 
a USB.
My lexar SD to USB adapter lets an SD boot but then it sticks out the 
side. : /

This works on the EeePc900 as SD is on the USB bus...

Tom Gilliard
satellit
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Can the Acer one boot from the SD storage slot?
.......................................
I see no evidence with european or north american models of the ability 
to boot from SD readers. There is no mention of this feature in any BIOS
release notes. I am running the latest BIOS available to canadian modles 
v3009. v3114 is the latest for european. Neither mention SD boot in 
release notes nor does my v3009 give any SD boot options of any kind 
with cards in either slot. Nor is the GRUB bootloader able to access SD 
cards (afaik) =D
.......................................
Turns out the SD adapter uses the PCIe bus and the BIOS only supports 
booting directly from USB devices

reference:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=592546

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Yes,
>
> The wireless on all the Acer Aspire Ones is atheros based. On the
> older 11g devices its ath5k based, on the newer ones with 11n its
> ath9k.
>
> The Acer Aspire One 532H is currently the device I'm recommending for
> people who want to use Fedora Mini (either Sugar or Moblin).
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>   
>> Peter;
>>
>> Does the Acer Aspire One 532H support wireless in fedora?
>> I have the EeePC1000HE here and have to use Ubuntu 9.04 to get wireless to
>> work.
>> MY test netbook:EeePC900 (mandriva) does work with soas out of the box.
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>>
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Caryl,
>>
>> The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/
>>
>> It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the
>> box for both Fedora and Sugar) and is the device that Mel is using for
>> her pilot in Boston. Its the newer generation of hardware. It comes
>> with Windows 7 but then most current netbooks do.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi All...
>>
>> I have decided that I really should invest in an inexpensive windows  laptop
>> or netbook to use in my volunteer work with Sugar Labs and OLPC. I have been
>> looking online and visited one electronics store yesterday (Fry's).  Here
>> are my thoughts...
>>
>> I would prefer an ultralight netbook with a good webcam so I can travel with
>> it and use it for Skype.
>>
>> If I get a netbook it will have to have 3 usb ports so that I can plug in an
>> optical drive that can burn dvds and cds.  The one I am looking at draws
>> it's power from 2 usb ports so I would need another to be able to plug in a
>> usb stick or drive or anything else usb (unless I get a usb hub... rather
>> not).
>>
>> I don't like windows in general, but If I have to have it, would prefer xp.
>> Linux is nice, but the easiest instructions seem to be for Windows machines
>> and very few of the educators I will be working with will have Linux.
>>
>> At Fry's they let me play a bit.  I put an SoaS usb stick in an MSI and it
>> booted on startup with no problems.  It would not start on a Gateway. With
>> no optical drive, I can't rely on a boot helper cd.  There were other, more
>> expensive machines, but time was short so that was all I tried.
>>
>> I want to spend as little $$$ as possible. After all, I have a perfectly
>> wonderful MacBook and this other machine will be used mainly for my
>> volunteer work. The Mac will run SoaS, with a boot helper disk, will burn
>> cds and dvds, but it is much easier to create the SoaS sticks on a Windows
>> machine.
>>
>> So here is the question...  Which netbooks and laptops will work with SoaS
>> on a Plug-'n-Play basis like the MSI did?
>>
>> Do you know of any other electronics store chains that might let me come in
>> and test SoaS on their floor models?
>>
>> Do you know of any place to get a really good price on these machines?
>>
>> My son (a Computer Educator Extraordinare) said he likes Toshiba, Samsung,
>> and either Acer or Asus but has not tried Sugar on any of them. He
>> definitely advised against getting the MSI.
>>
>> I would love to get this before the 24th so I would have it at the InfoTech
>> exhibit. Any and all suggestions would be welcome.
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>> P.S. There goes my tax refund!
>>
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