Keyboard bindings and Linux on CF-H1
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:23 pm
So I plugged the CF-H1 up to charge in its dock. I pulled out my trusty
External Samsung DVD drive and plugged it in. It has never failed to
boot a computer, until now.
I tried several different OS's, it wasn't the OS.
Then I tried Knoppix on a usb I keep for just such problems. It
booted right up. I had watched the DVD spin up and the BIOS moved
on before it could read, locking it into a loop that wouldn't boot.
Another DVD drive might work, but I didn't have one.
So I pulled the iso and loaded it onto a usb, I was in a hurry so I just used :
dd bs=4M if=debian\ wheezy\ 20150114-04\:58.iso of=/dev/sdb
as root. "dd" has the nickname "disc destroyer", but that is if
your not careful. To make a bootable usb from an iso its great.
Just make sure you know which drive is which.
So anyway, the first try was with a 64 bit, it would boot to the
install page but not run or install. The 32 bit Debian however
is installed and updating now.
I did go into /Settings/System Settings then to System Administration
and finally Login Screen. I enabled password LESS login. Its not secure
I know, but if my class notes are that valuable, heck, they can have them.
Both batteries show with percentages under power, and I didn't have
to do anything for touch (finger) and digitizer to work switching
back and forth. I think this is going to work out nicely.
The install is a little slow as the Atom isn't a power house. I also
turned off Neomuk indexing as it eats CPU time, but I do that
on my laptops too. But now it seems to run nicely, I wont be
compiling programs on it, but that isn't why I wanted it.
So the clif notes version of installing Linux on a CF-H1 is
use usb install media, dock, and everything else is pretty standard.
External Samsung DVD drive and plugged it in. It has never failed to
boot a computer, until now.
I tried several different OS's, it wasn't the OS.
Then I tried Knoppix on a usb I keep for just such problems. It
booted right up. I had watched the DVD spin up and the BIOS moved
on before it could read, locking it into a loop that wouldn't boot.
Another DVD drive might work, but I didn't have one.
So I pulled the iso and loaded it onto a usb, I was in a hurry so I just used :
dd bs=4M if=debian\ wheezy\ 20150114-04\:58.iso of=/dev/sdb
as root. "dd" has the nickname "disc destroyer", but that is if
your not careful. To make a bootable usb from an iso its great.
Just make sure you know which drive is which.
So anyway, the first try was with a 64 bit, it would boot to the
install page but not run or install. The 32 bit Debian however
is installed and updating now.
I did go into /Settings/System Settings then to System Administration
and finally Login Screen. I enabled password LESS login. Its not secure
I know, but if my class notes are that valuable, heck, they can have them.
Both batteries show with percentages under power, and I didn't have
to do anything for touch (finger) and digitizer to work switching
back and forth. I think this is going to work out nicely.
The install is a little slow as the Atom isn't a power house. I also
turned off Neomuk indexing as it eats CPU time, but I do that
on my laptops too. But now it seems to run nicely, I wont be
compiling programs on it, but that isn't why I wanted it.
So the clif notes version of installing Linux on a CF-H1 is
use usb install media, dock, and everything else is pretty standard.