Comments on: Installing Ubuntu Karmic Koala on an Asus Eee PC

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:04:07 +0000

Try redoing step 1 to 6, probably something has gone wrong.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:23:32 +0000

Hey i’m useless at these computers. I think I have saved the image correctly on my USB stick. But my EEE PC 900 won’t boot off it? So when I click enter on the USB: Removable Disk it says.. “Invalid system disk. Replace the disk, and then press any key”

Please help

By: Peter Dromena

Peter Dromena — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:37:45 +0000

Nice overview – many thanks for publishing. But I have one request – if you can find the time can you please add an entry about installing Karmic Koala on an SD or SDHC card (or USB thumbdrive)? In this way you can leave the Xandros or Windows OS on the SSD intact and have a Ubuntu/Xandros multiboot.

The reason for my question is that a full install of Ubuntu on a SD / SDHC card or USB drive or USB disk can be problematic. GRUB does not always like it (refuses to boot from external devices) and especially USB drives are not automatically flagged as bootable.

thanks in advance…