How to use the recovery ?

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  1. pebbles

    pebbles

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    I messed up my Linpus system....

    I sucessfully created a USB (4gb) rescue usb stick from the acer-one discovery dvd.

    I thought booting from the USB stick would did the trick.,.

    But whatever I try, its's only half working.. its startsup already but then it uses the old (ruined) partition again...

    How can I perform a clean install? Does anyone know? (I spend already two days's :twisted: )

    Thanks in advance !
     
    pebbles, Jul 21, 2008
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    After managing to load the usbstick with the recovery disc-program, my Acer One only starts halfway up from a USB stick resulting in a black screen with a cross shaped cursur in the middle....

    Does anyone know if the recovert procedure works at all?
     
    pebbles, Jul 22, 2008
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    The recovery procedure worked for me, though not with the first USB stick that I tried.

    The first stick (1GB) appeared to have been created OK and the recovery procedure on the Acer went OK until about 90% of the install at which point I got an error message and the machine would no longer boot. It simply posteed a sequence of "9"s across a black screen.

    A second attempt with a 4GB stick worked fine. It took ~10mins to build from the DVD and ~25mins to load to the Aspire One.

    I would recommend trying again with a different USB stick of at least 2GB.
     
    zaphod, Jul 22, 2008
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