Note:
I am by no means a Linux expert, everything I have done took a lot of Google searching to come up with solutions. I may not be able to help you with any specific problems you are receiving.
Ok, so my current Hardware Setup is the following.
- Samsung NC10 Netbook
- 2 GB RAM
- 160GB HDD
- 1.6GHz Intel Atom
- 1.3mp Camera
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
- 10/100Mb Ethernet
- Microphone
- Speakers
- USB GPS (I can't remember the Model at this time but it uses the PL2303 Driver)
- 7" VGA Screen with a 7" USB Touchscreen (In windows, uses the TouchKit driver)
- Velleman K8055 USB Interface Board
- ScanTool.Net ElmScan 5 USB OBD-II Reader
- I headed over to http://www.android-x86.org/ to get a copy of the latest version available. I my case, I got a copy of Ice Cream Sandwich. I tried several different versions of the build, but the one that was the most reliable for my hardware was the EEEPC ISO.
- I downloaded the ISO, and saved it away to my PC.
- I then headed over to get myself a copy of unetbootin from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to enable me to copy the ISO image onto a USB device and make it Bootable.
- Open UNetbootin.
- Select Diskimage.
- Make sure ISO is selected from the drop down.
- Click the button with "..." to browse and select the saved EEEPC ISO image that I saved earlier.
- Make sure the Type is set to USB Drive.
- Select the correct Drive for the USB Drive I want.
- Click Ok.
- Once I had a bootable USB Drive of Android x86, it was time to load it into the Samsung.
- I plugged the USB Drive in.
- Started the Netbook and pressed F2 to load up the BIOS options.
- I then made my way over to the Boot Menu and modified the Boot Sequence/Order, so that my USB drive booted before anything else.
- Saved my settings and exited BIOS.
- I let the computer boot up and was presented with a menu of Android Options
- Run Android x86 without Installing
- Debug Mode
- VESA Mode
- Install Android x86 to the Hard Drive
- I chose option one to run Android first, to try it without installing it, so that I could test if it works with the Netbook and to see if I got on well with it. (I strongly suggest this)
- Once I was happy, I rebooted and chose the last option to Install Android to the Hard Drive.
- I was then asked to select a device (Drive) to install Android to. If you are a Linux noob then what you are presented with is a list of devices.
- Then I was asked if I wanted to format the selected drive and if so, which Format? As I was installing this alongside my Windows OS, I chose not to Format the drive. If you are installing this from scratch I suggest Ext3.
- The next thing I was asked was do I want to Install the Grub Menu. I selected Yes. This will handle the boot requests and direct the machine to the Operating System.
- Because I was installing on my Windows drive, I was told that Windows OS had been detected and did I want to add an option into the Grub menu for Windows. I chose yes. You will not get this question when you install from scratch.
- I was then asked if I want to make the system Read and Write for debugging mode, I selected Yes (You may or may not be asked this?)
- I let the installation run through, which only took a couple of minutes as the operating system is so lightweight.
- I was finally asked if I wanted to setup a User space, and if so how much space should it allocate? I selected the maximum storage space which was 2047MB (2 GB). This took quite a while, a good half an hour I think. This option, I think is only asked if you are installing on your Windows Partition.
- When all is ready to go, you are asked to Run Android.
- The first time Android is started you are walked through a self explanatory wizard to set the Operating System up.
- Android seemed to have already picked up my WiFi adapter and Built In Camera straight away.
- I was now able to play around with the OS and download new apps etc.
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