Only a Live Image is currently available for download, which can easily be installed to an USB drive. To do so plug the USB drive in and wait till it's mounted, only to then unmount it with the following command.
sudo umount /dev/sdb1Download the image.
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/moblin/releases/test/beta//images/LATESTWrite the image to the USB drive. Note that all data will be overwritten.
sudo dd if=LATEST of=/dev/sdbReboot, press F12 to open the boot menu and select the USB drive. Moblin boots in about 20 seconds. To enable WLAN open the network manager, indicated by the symbol in the upper right corner, and select a connection. You may occasionally get an error message and a prompt to submit an error report to the developers. It is still a beta version, so that's not unusual.
wget -c http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/releases/test/beta/images/moblin-netbook-ux-beta-20090518-004.img
How easy is it to install software? Is there a software repository which is used by moblin?
Can I customize the showed menu?
Any ideas? Any other of your grateful readers have encountered this issue?
Hope this helps.
As always Macles, thank you.
moblin is based on fedora distribution, ii's possible to install the moblin kernel on my linpus?
Sorry, Linpus, it's been nice knowing you, but it was never going to work out. I'm sure you'll find someone who's right for you. Look, it's not you, it's me, OK?
what else should I try ?
You may need to install package dosfstools first. And if it still doesn't work use fdisk on /dev/sdb to change the partition type from 83 to 0c before you use mkdosfs.
i do everything right and when I boot from the usb stick, it says
something like kernel not found: Linux....
help???
But I don't think that moblin is good.
So i want to delete it from my usb
But how do you do that?
Please respond quickly, i need it for my exams.
Greets
http://mirrors.kernel.org/moblin/releases/test/beta//images/moblin-netbook-beta-refresh-20090607-001.img
but I don't like Linux Linpus Light.
So I was looking for something else.
I saw this, installed it, and hated it.
And now I'm stuck with it.
The one with moblin on her usb :/
Can i delete it?
figure out where your usb drive shows up: mine shows up at /dev/sdg1
unmount the drive
in a terminal:
sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdb1
then use gparted or the mkdosfs command to format it to fat32.
But I'm a noob.
So maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Could you explain in simple steps?
Either the relative path to the image ist not correct:
moblin-netbook-ux-beta-20090518004.img
Or the device does not exist:
/dev/sdb
Try to make a "ls -l <path>" on the relative file pathes. If no single line is printed then the path is incorrect.
I plan to switch to linpus to other distro in my Aspire One with 8 gb of ssd. I think in Ubuntu netbook remix but when I see moblin I get impressed, overall for booting time. Anyone knows how to customize menu. I don't interest in zones, just in the fast menu. I want the "classical" gnome menu in clutter. It could be nice.
For the other hand, I'm interested in installing moblin-kernel in my Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Moblin-kernel in [http://repo.moblin.org/moblin/development/core/source/] is rpm. So I plan to, when I have installed UNR, pass kernel.rpm to kernel.deb and install it for booting UNR in 5 seconds, like moblin.
Anyone knows if it's possible?
Xan.
dxpublica @@@@ telefonica.net
How about the new Moblin v2 based Linpus Lite? **
That still does not exist, despite the website claiming it does.
Download however still points at http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Linpus/ ; which is a 07-Oct-2008 compilation.
Moblin is just beautiful at first sight..
But the real truth is, its NOT!
I first like it, use it and then I HATED IT! (even it is just a BETA.. )
:<
ThankS for the gparted and dosfstools I finally get rid of it.
:>
Anyways Thanks for the wonderful Blog a LOT!
Cheers!
n_n
I really need to get it of my stick
How do you do it?
Can somebody explain this in steps?
EASY steps?
I'm a total noob, so i wouldn't know whick commandlines to use.
):
But how do you type it in to your terminal?
I'm sorry for the complaining, but i'd like to be able to use my usb.
Failed to copy "/media/disk/arul" to "/media/USBINSTALL/arul".
Failed to open "/media/USBINSTALL/arul" for writing (Permission denied).
Do you want to skip it?
When use execute ls -la /media/USBINSTALL/arul you will see that you have no write access to the directory. (See the "." directory in the output.)
Multiple causes: 1. The directory was created by the root user and your current user is not root. 2. The drive is a FAT-Filesystem and have no persistent access information, but at mounting the drive the access rights were set vor the whole USB drive.
The output of the ls command could help to find the reason.
this is i get when i execute ls-la/media/usbinstall
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -la /media/USBINSTALL/
total 933396
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-08-13 13:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-08-14 04:27 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-24 15:55 addon
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-06-09 17:18 boot
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 17992 2008-03-25 08:06 GPL
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 930237287 2008-07-24 14:56 hdc1._.tar.bz2
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-03-25 08:06 LAST_CD
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-08-13 13:24 lost+found
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 111 2008-03-25 08:06 rcd-mkiso.sh
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 24558445 2008-07-14 09:40 rd-base.img.bz2
[user@localhost ~]$
i don't what to do next
help please
it is a 320 GB usb seagate drive
i used for acer recovery
now i drive back as normal
again thanks for ur time
You are the user "user". The files and directories are owned by the user "root" (the administration user) and the user group "root". The owner user hat read and write permission and the owner user group and all other users has only read permission.
What to do now?
Well, your have to become the super-user "root" with the command "su -". Now, you have write acccess to the directory. And you can change the permissions and the ownerchip of the directories and file.
I would suggest that you give write access to the root directory of your device to every other user account. But not the the existing direcoties and files. May be it has a reason, that only the user "root" has write permissions.
Execute "chmod go+w /media/USBINSTALL". Now you can exit the super user mode with the command "exit". (Your prompt return to look like this again: "[user@localhost ~]$") It should be possible to copy file and directories to your USB-Drive.
i can't delete the 3 files
addon,boot and lost+found
[user@localhost ~]$ ls -la /media/USBINSTALL
total 36
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 2009-08-15 20:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-08-15 20:39 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-24 15:55 addon
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-06-09 17:18 boot
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2009-08-13 13:24 lost+found
drwx------ 4 user user 4096 2009-08-15 20:13 .Trash-500
[user@localhost ~]$
and the usb drive is not recognised by M/S window
help please
sorry if i wasting ur time
And you can not access the drive via MS Windows, because it is not FAT32 or NTFS. It is a linux file system like EXT3 or EXT2 or RaisaFS. (There are some possible file systems for Linux.)
So, if you want to use the drive for Windows computers, too: Plug your USB hard disk drive to a Windows PC and format the drive with a FAT32 file system. Linux can not write to NTFS safely. WARNING: All data on the drive get lost!
And to your next Question: How does I format a USB drive under Windows? Google = Best Friend. ;-) It is realy simple and you will make it. I am sure. :)
i leave u now
c u
Is it better to use http://mirrors.kernel.org/moblin/releases/2.0/images/moblin-2.0-final-20090924-001.img ?