spec me a distro for asus 1005ha netbook

psd99 · 22 Feb 2011 at 15:45

Hi all,

Please spec me a linux distro for my netbook asus 1005ha.

I was originally thinking backtrack for penetration testing but now I don't see the point. People have suggested either ubuntu or fedora - good idea but I was hoping for a specialised distro orientated for my asus 1005ha

so if you can suggest something please let me know

thanks

psd99.

psd99 · 22 Feb 2011 at 16:34

thanks
will check that out

I was looking at crunchbox as well

psd99 · 22 Feb 2011 at 22:13

thanks I'll try live cd with all of these and see which one I like best

psd99 · 23 Feb 2011 at 08:05

m4rkw7 said:
Backtrack 4 is based on Ubuntu anyway, so you can apt-get install the tools.
I'd go with Ubuntu

yer but I've had some random problems with it
I installed it but it isn't really designed for every day use

plus the mouse works sometimes and other times not
and I was stuck about how to make server x run every time I boot
tbh on a usb drive as a live cd environment would be better imo

psd99 · 23 Feb 2011 at 10:27

okay just loaded up usb key...
first time it didn't work with a initramfs screen that came up

I mean i tried start x but nothing happens..
I'm going to try this again with unetbootin...

psd99 · 23 Feb 2011 at 10:28

oh that was ubuntu notebook btw

psd99 · 23 Feb 2011 at 10:46

oh okay im at this black screen how do I get the installer to work? Any ideas guys?

initramfs?

psd99 · 23 Feb 2011 at 15:42

m4rkw7 said:
Backtrack is not intended to be installed, it's more for a Live environment, but
How to automatically startx / GUI in Backtrack 4.

thanks I got that in backtrack just type in startx and it will work

it's just the live cd *usb disk drive* that I got working for ubuntu netbook gives me this black screen which says initramfs and I don't know what to write in there?