I probably spend a good portion of a day and half on figuring out how installing Linux on my Samsung netbook. I wanted to find a suitable distro for my atom under-powered machine and thought I would give "Lubuntu" and "Easypeasy" a try. But the problem that I ran into is that I was unable to create a bootable USB drive with UNetbootin which is one of the most excellent tools available for installing and trying out Linux distros. But in the Samsung, I did not find the option to boot from USB, as a result, it all failed. Then I tried to install it from the hard disk, the image .iso file but it did not work due to a well known but which prevents the distro to install if the live disk created by UNetbootin is in the same disk. It gives an error by stating to unmount the CDROM. This comes along because the USB acts as CDROM and since it is in the same disk as where we are trying to install the distro, the error comes along.
But there is a way out to do exactly that which I did not try. Here is the link:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/171
What I did is that found a way to activate USB boot option in Samsung by disabling the fast bios option in BIOS setup. Then I fired up unetbootin and created Live CD for Lubuntu. Then freed up some space from the logical drive by using disk management in Windows 7. Then when I rebooted, the netbook nicely booted into untebootin boot window where you have the option to try it before installing. Anyway I liked it already so I went to direct installation. It went smoothly and I was ecstatic. But then I got greedy!
I freed up a little bit more space from my logical drive and installed Easypeasy in the same manner. But alas, what happened is that my Windows7 was gone from GRUB list. Then following the instructions on this page:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/83771/recovering-grub-after-installing-windows-7
Specially these simple commands worked just find to recover GRUB with windows on it:
But there is a way out to do exactly that which I did not try. Here is the link:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/171
What I did is that found a way to activate USB boot option in Samsung by disabling the fast bios option in BIOS setup. Then I fired up unetbootin and created Live CD for Lubuntu. Then freed up some space from the logical drive by using disk management in Windows 7. Then when I rebooted, the netbook nicely booted into untebootin boot window where you have the option to try it before installing. Anyway I liked it already so I went to direct installation. It went smoothly and I was ecstatic. But then I got greedy!
I freed up a little bit more space from my logical drive and installed Easypeasy in the same manner. But alas, what happened is that my Windows7 was gone from GRUB list. Then following the instructions on this page:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/83771/recovering-grub-after-installing-windows-7
Specially these simple commands worked just find to recover GRUB with windows on it:
To recover grub:
- Open the live version.
- Open the terminal and run
sudo fdisk -lto see where Linux is installed. - Run
sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mntwhere x is the number you have found Linux word in - Run
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdato install grub. - Run
sudo update-grubto update grub and if this command didn't work run it after rebooting. - Reboot.
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