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#1 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-03-04 16:54:06
m0nk3ym4n wrote:That is really bizarre man, the trick is to flash to F.04 I found and then Crunchbang loaded right up. To be honest I wasn't totally blown away by Crunchbang and not sure if the distro is for me.
I had the same experience you mentioned earlier. I downloaded the sp40310.exe from HP to downgrade my
bios from 05 to 04. I ran it on a Win XP box, which seemed to work ok. When I try and boot the memory stick
on the HP 2133, it reports "System disk invalid", which I take to mean that it is not bootable.Have you managed to get round this problem?
Geoff
Oh I know what the problem was! Is your flash drive bigger than 1 gig? I was trying to use a 4 gig Lexar but then read that you have to use something 1 gig or smaller!
#2 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-19 15:20:54
That is really bizarre man, the trick is to flash to F.04 I found and then Crunchbang loaded right up. To be honest I wasn't totally blown away by Crunchbang and not sure if the distro is for me.
I did just get a HP Tx2604ca which is basically one of the newer non multitouch laptop/tablets so I was thinking about shipping my 2133 home to my family with Ubuntu on it or something.
Anyway though, glad to see you got it up and running. I really do wish I had waited and gotten a MiniNote with an Atom processor instead 
#3 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-11 16:52:26
I'm buying a 2133/KX869AT tomorrow and I have plans to install #! on it.
Maybe we can help each other on the way
How did your installation go Zed?
#4 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-10 21:24:00
Used these links to try and downgrade my bios to F.04 but after formatting the flash drive I put it in the MiniNote 2133 and it just said that the disk was unrecognizable or something.
Links here for instructions and disk/usb creator for F.04.
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40001-40500/sp40310.html
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40001-40500/sp40310.exe
#5 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-10 20:18:51
Sorry, I could not help you, and yes it seems you are right about xforcevesa
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
this may interest you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-969172.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=965542regards and sorry.
Thanks for the links, I'm going to downgrade back to F.04 and see what happens.
#6 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-10 20:12:22
Yeah the new bios is F.05, but the random restarting problems I should mention happen in both XP and Ubuntu so not sure what to think of that.
#7 Re: Introductions » Hey hey fellow #!'ers » 2009-02-10 16:05:19
And yes I do game a little bit on it (on lans and such. My desktop is way too heavy with a fat CRT and everything)
What is the game of choice in Sweden right now? Recently I've been playing against a lot of people from Sweden and Norway I think too on Company of Heroes.
#8 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-10 14:22:21
I'm buying a 2133/KX869AT tomorrow and I have plans to install #! on it.
Maybe we can help each other on the way
If it works for you first try, I'm definitely going to have to ship mine back. Sometimes it just restarts for no apparent reason, which I find bizarre. Have the new bios and everything. Can't remember what the last tech said it might be. I think he/she recommended that I use it in safe mode constantly (when in XP) and see if it restarts then, if not it's not their problem!
#9 Re: Introductions » Hey hey fellow #!'ers » 2009-02-10 03:38:34
Was highly interested in the distro when I first saw it on distrowatch.com (8.10.2 which I'm currently using). And now when I've finally received my brand new Mythos A15 (shameless advertising for zepto.com) and having run crunchbang on it for a couple days I'm really happy with it
I'll see if I can contribute with anything to the community as soon as I've got some more knowledge about everything in this great distro
About me. I'm just viking from the north doing my thing (Hailing from Sweden)
How come you went with a Mythos? Have you liked it so far? Do you game on it?
#10 Introductions » Hello from Seattle! » 2009-02-09 22:27:53
- m0nk3ym4n
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Hey everyone,
I've always been really into Ubuntu as soon as I found out about it and the curiosity of Linux overcame me, and now I've been trying and testing out each version since Gutsy and alternatives like Sabayon, Mint, gOS just to name a few.
This past Summer I bought a MiniNote 2133 just as it came out because I was about to start doing a lot of exchanges and study abroads (when I come back home in May, I will have been gone a little over 9 months of the year since I started.
Anyway, I have the slow-mo Via processor in my MiniNote and need something fast for basically quick web usage and can't find any documentation or forums of anyone trying to put CrunchBang on theirs so I'm looking to get that going and report my findings. I started a thread in the support forum.
Talk to you all soon!
#11 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-09 21:25:54
I can't get into a CLI, my only option is to add boot options before I press enter after select to boot from the USB drive with #! on it. I repeated the same steps with the full version instead of the lite version and got the same results. To force vesa drivers all I have to do is type xforcevesa right? That's what it says to do?
Anyway, any help would be appreciated, I really want something lightweight on my MiniNote!
Thank you.
#12 Re: Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-09 18:53:09
I didn't try that, but I also wouldn't know what to do once I was at the CLI?
I tried typing that at the boot selection screen but no go.
I know the MiniNote needs this really lame via drivers, I think that's the issue.
#13 Help & Support (Stable) » Installing #! on MiniNote 2133 » 2009-02-09 18:43:27
- m0nk3ym4n
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Has anyone tried this yet?
I downloaded the Lite Version and am trying to boot into the live session, doing vanilla version just left me with a black screen but shut down after I slid the power button. So like Ubuntu, I tried doing the xforcevesa boot option but left me with the same black screen.
What should I do?
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