Should I download Easy Peasy on an Acer One Aspire? (Came with out of the box distro)

[katmac]

Just recently got over some MAJOR hurdles with the computer and, during our 20 some-odd page forum that finally worked to fix the system, I was told, several times, that I may be better served with Easy Peasy.

I had gone out and bought a little flash drive USB, but I haven't a CLUE how to download on this thing!! (Never HAVE!) Certainly not a 'user-friendly' system, I've found..

Anyway, any time I try to download anything, here's the message I'm seeing...

Opening easypeasy-1.1.iso (or, anything else)

You have chosen to open
easypeasy-1.1.iso
which is an unknown
from: SourceForge.net: Exiting with Error

What should Firefox do with this file?
open with - Adobe Reader 8 (default)
save to disk

Like I said, the same box comes up no matter what I'm trying to download. I've tried to change the options from Adobe, but nothing ever seems to work.

Anyone have any ideas?

[reed9]

Wait, so when you click the download link from the Easy Peasy website, it redirects you to source forge, and then doesn't give you an option to simply save the file, but automatically tries to open it, which fails because Firefox doesn't know what to do with an iso file?

In Firefox, you should be able to go to Tools->Options, select the applications tab, and look for an entry for iso Archive. Under the action column to the right, click, and change to option to save file.

[katmac]

Will do!!

Umm, just need to know how to get there..is this something to be done in the Terminal screen or????

[reed9]

Hmm, just a note, Easy Peasy recommends using unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive, and I agree that's probably the easiest method for you. If you have a windows computer (I'm assuming you don't have another computer running Ubuntu, or other real linux distro), there is a windows version, which might be easiest. In which case download Easy Peasy on that computer and use unetbootin to create the bootable USB.

Otherwise, getting unetbootin to work under Linpus Lite is not too hard, but not as straightforward as in Windows or Ubuntu.

Here is a guide to doing so under Linpus Lite.
Installing Easy Peasy Linux on my Acer Aspire One netbook | Tech and life

The first part of the guide is making a backup Linpus USB recovery stick, which isn't a bad idea, but not strictly necessary. The most pertinent stuff is under the heading Creating the Easy Peasy USB drive. Also note the section on how to change the boot order, so it boots from the USB stick and not the internal drive.

[reed9]

Will do!!

Umm, just need to know how to get there..is this something to be done in the Terminal screen or????

Nope, this part is is just in Firefox. Up at the top under Tools.

[katmac]

Ok, so I download it onto the Windows computer then, after THAT, download the unetbootin and then transfer the easypeasy onto the usb stick and THEN into the Acer?

[katmac]

As USUAL, not on MINE! (Arrgh!) MY tools menu have the following

- websearch
- downloads
- add ons
- error console
- DOM inspector
- page info
- clear private data

[elija]

Try Edit -> Preferences rather than Tools -> options if you are running on Linux

[reed9]

Oh, ha, yeah, I'm at work using XP. Didn't think about the difference in the Linux Firefox version.

@katmac
Here is the unetbootin site, where you can download a windows version.
UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

Download the iso file, stick your usb stick in the windows computer, run unetbootin, select disk image, choose iso, point it at the location of your file. At the bottom, it should be autoselected to your usb drive, but double check that and hit OK.

[katmac]

Hi Elija,

Alright, I went in under Edit and Preferences and got another box with a bunch of different tabs. Under Main, I'm seeing an option that reads, 'Save files to' with a browse button beside it. Looks like it's set up to store anything downloaded into Desktop

BTW, I had both Easy Peasy and the Ubootin things downloaded on the Windows machine. I moved them over to the usb and plugged it in after going to F12 and changing the boot order. When I did, I'm still seeing the message, 'no bootable partition in table'.

Should I just be doing what the instructions say to do and download everything using the Acer? (The desktop computer is OLD and running Windows, maybe that's the problem???)