[NBLUG/talk] 10-year-old Lubuntu netbook

[wordburner]

Another question. The installation manual doesn't mention booting from
a disk or USB stick. Instead, it says you need to create a partition
before installing it. I have no idea how to do that on the netbook. Do
you?

Thanks again,
Bonnie

On 11/26/19, wordburner <wordburner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for your quick reply, Scott. Do you happen to know if
> Haiku supports the Dvorak keyboard layout? That's the main problem I'm
> having with the netbook now.
>
> Bonnie
>
> On 11/26/19, scottmc <scottmc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I really like netbooks, and since they don't make them anymore, I'd
>>> love to figure out how to use this one.
>>>
>>
>> You might try Haiku on that old netbook.  We ran Haiku on a network
>> during LinuxWorld back in 2008, and I think Haiku would still work on
>> an old netbook.
>> We released R1Beta1 just over a year ago, if that doesn't work try a
>> recent nightly build.  You can put it on a USB stick and then boot the
>> netbook from it to test it out before installing it.
>> https://www.haiku-os.org/
>>
>> -Scott
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