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This entry posted from the eeeeeee, running eeebuntu :-) Next up: seeing if it works with the wireless at work...

( How it was done )

I have discovered that the eeeeeee with its default installation of Xandros won't work with Eduroam (the wireless system used by universities). No problem, I am assured, it works fine with Ubuntu, and there's an eeeee-specific version with handholdy instructions.

So I've spent this evening trying to install Ubuntu on my eeeeeee. After some minor tribulations I have managed to boot my Macbook from a Ubuntu CD (which was a weird experience in itself), but failed to run the script that's supposed to make a USB stick into a bootable thing.

I'm working from these instructions, and it all starts going wrong about the point I'm supposed to be verifying the identity of my USB stick. If I follow the instructions about removing and reinserting the stick, nothing happens. If I just run the script, I get told the directory doesn't exist (and it does, I've checked. It's in exactly the place it's supposed to be AFAICT). Am I missing something? Are there some steps I'm supposed to infer? Can someone write me an even-more handholdy explanation?

My DVR finally does everything it's supposed to! Getting the guide data took a while because none of the official documentation told us that NTL doesn't transmit guide data, so we had to dig out our steam-powered aerial cable and plug that in, and hey presto! We have one week's worth of TV guide. And because the DVR is getting its data through the aerial rather than the set top box, we don't even have to remember to tune to a particular channel every now and again. Setting programmes to record is a simple matter of finding the programme in the guide and pressing the red button, and then leaving the DVR to get on with changing the channel on the cable box at the appropriate time. It picks up the programme name and everything. Hurrah!

wimble, you asked what it was: it's a Philips HDRW720, and it's shiny ;-)

Last weekend, smiorgan and I bought a shiny new DVD recorder with built in hard drive (like a Tivo, only better in some ways and worse in others). And yea, there was much rejoicing. Until, that is, ( we started trying to actually use it... )