Meego Installation Guide

Installing meego on your netbook

 

Follow the steps for downloads and installing meego on your netbook and you'll be ready to go mobile!

Overview

Steps for loading the meego live image on your netbook, nettop or PC:

1. Download the latest live image.
2. Byte-copy the image to a USB drive.
3. Boot the image on your netbook, nettop or PC.

System Requirements

• CPU: Intel Atom or Intel Core 2 CPU (support for ssse3)
  Note: meego will not work on non-SSSE3 CPUs
• Platforms with the GMA-500, NVIDIA, or ATI graphics chipset are not supported.
• Tested netbook and nettop platforms

About live images

The meego live image is designed to be used with a USB drive. a netbook or PC can be booted from the USB drive without modifying its hard drive or configuration. this lets you test drive an image before installing it. when you are done, just remove the USB drive and reboot. if you like what you see, you can then install meego from the same live image.

1Download the live image

The live image is available from the netbook Downloads page. Save the image to a known location so you can access it in step 2.

2Byte-copy the image to a USB drive

You will need a USB drive with at least the capacity of the downloaded image.

Note:A byte-exact copy of the image must be placed on the USB drive. it is not sufficient to simply copy the image file to the drive. be aware contents of the USB drive will be completely erased.

Linux instructions

Be sure the USB drive is unmounted before proceeding. Some Linux distributions auto mount the USB drive when it is inserted, which can cause uption when writing.

# umount <usb-drive>

Use either of these two methods:

• Image writer(Recommended, requires Python >=2.4)
  Image writer is a small Python executable script that detects your USB drive and writes the image to it. the advantage of using image writer is that it will not inadvertently overwrite your system hard drive. download image writer
  # cd <directory with downloaded image-writer file>
# chmod a+x ./image-writer
# ./image-writer <image file>

• Use 'dd' from the command-line
  Caution:'Dd' will overwrite any destination including your system hard disk. Make sure you know the correct value of <USB drive> before proceeding.# dd bs=4096 if=<image file> of=<usb drive>


Proceed to Step 3: boot the image

Windows instructions

There is a simple way to put the meego image on a USB drive.

1. Download the win32diskimager.exe program: https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download (ZIP file)
2. Unzip the file and extract the contents to a known directory
3. Run w32diskimager.exe (screenshot)
4. Select the meego image file (. IMG)
5. Select the drive letter which corresponds to the USB key
6. Click the "write" button to byte-copy the image to the USB drive.

Proceed to Step 3: boot the image

Mac OS X instructions

Be sure the USB drive is unmounted before proceeding. OS X auto mounts the USB drive when it is inserted, which can cause resume uption when writing. you can press the eject icon in finder or drag the USB icon to the trash.

Use this method (thanks to ayromlou for the instructions ):

1. Open a terminal (applications-> utilities-> Terminal)
2. Rundiskutil list

   To get the current list of devices

3. Insert your Flash Media
4. Rundiskutil list


   Again and determine the device node assigned to your Flash Media (for example/dev/disk2)

5. Rundiskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN

   (Replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N wocould be 2)

6. Runsudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1024

   (Replace/path/to/downloaded. IMG with the place you downloaded the image. You'll need your password for this.

7. Rundiskutil eject /dev/diskN

   (Where N is the number we found abve) and remove your Flash Media when the command completes

8. You're done! Proceed to Step 3: boot the image

3Boot the image on your netbook, nettop, or PC

Insert the USB drive into your netbook, nettop or PC and reboot. Make sure that the boot order tries the USB drive first.

Troubleshooting

Issue	Suggestions
When booting from the USB key, the following error displays (after the blue GRUB menu and 8 sec countdown ): Bug in initramfs /init detected.  Dropping to a shell. Good luck!	If you created the image in Linux, You Need To unmount the USB drive before writing the image to it. using Linux distros mount the USB drive when it is plugged in. you can find your USB device by typing "Mount" on the command-line. it is usually the last drive mounted.   (find usb device) # mount ... /dev/sdc1 on /media/netbook-... type iso9660 ...   (unmount the drive) # umount /dev/sdc1   (perform the byte-copy) # image-writer ...   (or dd .... )
When booting from the USB key (after writing the image to it), the following error displays: crc error   system halted	Try using a different USB key. Some keys have formatting that seems to cause problems.
When creating the USB drive in Windows, you see the error:Error writing file: 87 The parameter is incorrect	The USB drive is too small. It shoshould be at least 1 GB. Note that if you have already used this drive for an image it may appear incorrectly sized in windows. this is a side-effect of the 'dd' byte copy process. put the USB drive in your Windows PC. right click, format (it may show incorrect size -- just ignore ). then select a different drive (such as C :/). then reselect the USB drive and format it again. it will show the correct size. now retry putting the image on it.
When creating the USB drive in Windows, you see the error:Error opening output file: 32.  The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process	Another window has the USB drive opened (explorer or command terminal). Close it and try again.