This page is about installing and configuring Fedora on the Acer Aspire One netbook. Please contribute if you can.
What doesn't yet work
- Wireless
- Card readers
Installation
You can install Fedora by using an external USB CD/DVD reader or from an USB dongle.
Live CD/USB
If you boot a Fedora 9 live you'll encounter some non-fatal errors:
- You'll see the ethernet driver fail to load and printing a backtrace.
- The boot will hang while loading the HD audio module. Just wait a minute and the boot will continue.
You can continue the installation and upgrade later. These two problems are solved in the current Fedora. To update the distribution so that the ethernet and audio works you have to either connect to the internet using a USB WiFi Dongle or by manually downloading a newer kernel rpm. If you choose the former you should delete or disable the "rt8169" and "snd_hda_intel" modules so that they doesn't mess-up the kernel during boot and make the network configuration impossible.
Installation DVD
"TODO"
Notes on performance
If you have the 8 GB SSD/512MB RAM version the performance is not so good. Linux try to swap often, and the SSD is too slow (~ 4MB/sec) to handle much swapping. Use a lighter desktop like XFCE or add more RAM (which is not easy, you have to fully open the Aspire One)