harderthanlinux
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My test computer is an eeepc901 with a 4 gb ssd and an 8gb sd card. I first attempted install fresh on my ssd over the existing Windows Xp. This is impossible as Windows 8 needs close to 6 giga bytes just to install. Wasn't this version supposed to be tablet and netbook friendly?
So next I attempted an upgrade install. Turns out this has to be launched from within an existing Windows boot. My xp was thinned out and was not up to service pack 3. Thus the install failed again as service pack 3 would exceed my hard drive space also.
On the 8 gb sd card I had installed linux ubuntu which dual boots with windows perfectly well despite the fact that they are on totally different drives, one of which is removeable. I decided I could always reinstall ubuntu in under 20 minutes so I tried to install Windows 8 onto the SD card. Of course, windows never loads any drivers when you start an install so it did not even see the sd card drive.
I tried to install the sd card driver at this point, as this was an option in the vastly prettier installer. But the system would not recognize the driver.
So why is it that a bunch of nerds can create a linux version that installs itself with almost no interaction onto the drive I choose without requiring me to provide a driver, looks amazing, does everything a computer user would want, but is totallay free? Yet the well-paid Microsoft developers can release this abomination that is bigger, uglier, and harder to install (despite the pretty installer) and will likely cost a couple hundred? Keepin mind I have both XP and Linux dual booting on this tiny computer with only a 4 gb ssd and a 8 gb sd. Does anyone know a trick to install onto a usb drive or an sd card?
So next I attempted an upgrade install. Turns out this has to be launched from within an existing Windows boot. My xp was thinned out and was not up to service pack 3. Thus the install failed again as service pack 3 would exceed my hard drive space also.
On the 8 gb sd card I had installed linux ubuntu which dual boots with windows perfectly well despite the fact that they are on totally different drives, one of which is removeable. I decided I could always reinstall ubuntu in under 20 minutes so I tried to install Windows 8 onto the SD card. Of course, windows never loads any drivers when you start an install so it did not even see the sd card drive.
I tried to install the sd card driver at this point, as this was an option in the vastly prettier installer. But the system would not recognize the driver.
So why is it that a bunch of nerds can create a linux version that installs itself with almost no interaction onto the drive I choose without requiring me to provide a driver, looks amazing, does everything a computer user would want, but is totallay free? Yet the well-paid Microsoft developers can release this abomination that is bigger, uglier, and harder to install (despite the pretty installer) and will likely cost a couple hundred? Keepin mind I have both XP and Linux dual booting on this tiny computer with only a 4 gb ssd and a 8 gb sd. Does anyone know a trick to install onto a usb drive or an sd card?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- ubuntu 11.11 kde
- System Manufacturer/Model
- compaq cq62
- CPU
- 2.7 ghz 64 bit intel
- Motherboard
- stock
- Memory
- 2 gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- stock
- Sound Card
- stock
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x800
- Hard Drives
- 250 gb