Samsung NC10

DIABLO · 5 Mar 2009 at 20:25

Keep the page file on.. some programs whine if you turn it off, i fixed mine to 1.5GB. Highly reccomend the 2GB upgrade especially if you installed vista, upgraded mine today and vista runs a lot smoother.

Izi · 5 Mar 2009 at 20:52

DIABLO said:
Keep the page file on.. some programs whine if you turn it off, i fixed mine to 1.5GB. Highly reccomend the 2GB upgrade especially if you installed vista, upgraded mine today and vista runs a lot smoother.

To instal Vista or W7, do you have to do it using a USB pen drive?

GeForce · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:00

thought said:
To instal Vista or W7, do you have to do it using a USB pen drive?

You don't have to. You can mount the install DVD as a virtual iso in XP, or you could copy the DVD contents to an external HDD.

Installing from USB stick is very simple though, but it requires formatting the stick as NTFS and needs a 4Gb one.

Izi · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:20

GeForce said:
You don't have to. You can mount the install DVD as a virtual iso in XP, or you could copy the DVD contents to an external HDD.

Installing from USB stick is very simple though, but it requires formatting the stick as NTFS and needs a 4Gb one.

could i simply copy w7 contents to hard drive and instal from there? does it have to be a mounted drive?

mrk · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:33

You can copy contents and run setup or install Daemon tools> Mount ISO then simply run setup.exe.

I did the latter.

Izi · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:34

mrk said:
You can copy contents and run setup or install Daemon tools> Mount ISO then simply run setup.exe.

I did the latter.

thanks mrk

copying file now.did you keep the two partitions?

how u finding w7 in terms of speed over xp on these?

i use W7 on my home desktop and it feels much faster than vista, but not sure how it will run on one nc10.

GeForce · 5 Mar 2009 at 21:35

Daemon tools seems to be the more widely used method. But Google seems to say the "copy to HDD" option works too

Edit: W7 feels faster & more responsive on 2GB RAM. I deleted the C:/D: partitions and merged them into one big C: partition.

Izi · 5 Mar 2009 at 22:43

ok W7 running - what driver is everyone using for the trackpad under windows 7? also is there an easy way to get the FN buttons working?

Ignore, found blog post all i need to know.

W7 is so nice to use.

Little tip for anyone using 7 - right click taskbar - properties - use small icons - reclaims a few extra pixels

GeForce · 6 Mar 2009 at 07:07

I cannot get Windows Live Messenger running under W7 on this machine. Anyone else had any success with it?

The installer fails saying Microsoft Application Error Reporting couldn't be installed, and "it looks like another program is preventing the installation".

iMacMart · 6 Mar 2009 at 08:01

Are people using external DVD drives to install the OS?

ShaolinDreams · 6 Mar 2009 at 11:21

i guess so either that or usb stick

iMacMart · 6 Mar 2009 at 13:00

Never build a machine via USB stick, would like to have a bash though!

Got my shiney new S10e next to me charging so will see later!!

Izi · 6 Mar 2009 at 13:37

tweakinfreak said:
Are people using external DVD drives to install the OS?

The few posts above this was talking exactly about this.

Mount ISO, copy to HD, copy to USB pen drive.

I copied CD to HD then installed.

lay-z-boy · 6 Mar 2009 at 13:40

tweakinfreak said:
Are people using external DVD drives to install the OS?

I use a usb portable 200gb hard drive with 10gb partitioned off as an active partition. I then just dump the contents of an iso or whatever on the partition and I can install off it.

So much quicker than using a usb bd drive and much less noisy too.

I've tried w7 on my nc10 and I found it to generally be great but there were a few problems with things working on coming out of a sleep so I went to vista which works without any problems.

naknakkus · 6 Mar 2009 at 14:17

Bought mine earlier - arriving tomorrow!

Does anyone know if Damn Small Linux will work on this thing?

mrk · 6 Mar 2009 at 14:25

As much as I like mine I have a feeling as soon as the HTC Magic land son my lap I will not use the NC10 much at all but that all depends on battery life and multimedia support on the Magic so keep an eye on MM in the coming few weeks just in case

Jamesdavid3 · 6 Mar 2009 at 15:06

lay-z-boy said:
I use a usb portable 200gb hard drive with 10gb partitioned off as an active partition. I then just dump the contents of an iso or whatever on the partition and I can install off it.

So much quicker than using a usb bd drive and much less noisy too.

I've tried w7 on my nc10 and I found it to generally be great but there were a few problems with things working on coming out of a sleep so I went to vista which works without any problems.

Ohhh so you can use an external HHD as an ISO file to installed CD's!?

I have a Windows 7 iso file, so can i mount it some how on my external HDD then boot it up so it runs from that?

Sneaky Peaky · 6 Mar 2009 at 17:32

Easier to extract the ISO image using winrar or similar to a USB memory stick and boot from it which is what I did

lay-z-boy · 6 Mar 2009 at 19:57

Jamesdavid3 said:
Ohhh so you can use an external HHD as an ISO file to installed CD's!?

I have a Windows 7 iso file, so can i mount it some how on my external HDD then boot it up so it runs from that?

Yes, as long as there is a partition on the hard drive that is set to active then you can boot from it by just extracting the iso to the active partition.

Sneaky Peaky said:
Easier to extract the ISO image using winrar or similar to a USB memory stick and boot from it which is what I did

That's exactly what you do, just extract it to the root of the drive, same as the flash drive. It's just much faster on a hdd.

Izi · 6 Mar 2009 at 19:57

when I connect VGA what resolution should i be able to get? at the moment it only lets me have the same res as the screen...