Spec me linux distro for Asus 1005HA netbook

psd99

psd99

psd99

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I got a netbook eee 1005HA and windows has gone kaput
because I've got dual boot of backtrack the grub has messed up my partition and I can't restore to factory defaults

so I need a linux disto that is known to work (drivers worries me) for my asus netbook

any linux distros any of you can recommend?
 
Arch Linux is well documented for the Asus EEE range if you're willing to get your hands dirty in terminal and build from the ground up. If not, Ubuntu Netbook Edition should do.
 
There seems to be quite a lot of eee users on the crunchbang forums so I'd assume your netbook is well supported by pretty much most debian based distros, Crunchbang Statler + OpenBox is light as heck and is perfect for a netbook.


Oh, and grub won't have cocked up any of your partitions as its only a bootloader, it's you that messed the partitioning up when you repartitioned for backtrack!
 
Hairybudda said:
There seems to be quite a lot of eee users on the crunchbang forums so I'd assume your netbook is well supported by pretty much most debian based distros, Crunchbang Statler + OpenBox is light as heck and is perfect for a netbook.


Oh, and grub won't have cocked up any of your partitions as its only a bootloader, it's you that messed the partitioning up when you repartitioned for backtrack!
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mmm how did you know?

the scope of my problem is THIS:

partitions.jpg


I just can't hit F9 to restore because of the way my drive is now partitioned

do any of you linux folk have any ideas?

if I fixed my MBR with recovery console
do u think I could restore the laptop to how it was when it left factory?

will check out all the distros thanks
 
psd99 said:
mmm how did you know?
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Because grub doesn't modify any partitioning information, its a boot loader i.e. it generally lives in the MBR on your primary HDD.

psd99 said:
the scope of my problem is THIS:

partitions.jpg


I just can't hit F9 to restore because of the way my drive is now partitioned

do any of you linux folk have any ideas?

if I fixed my MBR with recovery console
do u think I could restore the laptop to how it was when it left factory?

will check out all the distros thanks
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If you can get the recovery console, provided you haven't removed any partitions when you were setting up your backtrack install, you should be able to do a fixmbr to get the default windows bootloader back and f9 to recover.
 
thanks but will it matter that efi partition is now at the back of my drive not at the beginning?

I am going to give this a shot will see how it goes
 
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