Comments on: Announcing Smeegol 1.0

By: MEX

MEX — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:35:30 +0000

Currently I copy the image with “sudo dd if=/home/?*/Downloads/Smeegol.i686-1.1.0-Build6.3.iso of=/dev/sdb?” to a USB stick … after doing a “umount /dev/sdb?” to the device which “mount” showed me beeing this USB stick.

The old Smeegol 1.0 only displayed a white screen after booting, maybe because of the SiS GPU on my FSC V5535 or the GMA500 GPU on my Sony Vaio P VGN-P11 :(

MfG, MEX

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:50:14 +0000

Downloaded the Smeegol-BUILD -istalled it with dd to usb. Booted it in my Asus EEE 900/16 gb.

The usb-live booted with no trouble at all and then I used the live-installer to intall to the netbooks ssd. You find the installer in “Settings”.

Make an update of your new OS and enjoy!! I thiink it is great.

By: Xavier Callejas

Xavier Callejas — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:40:50 +0000

Wow! really amazing! it just work!

I #dd the iso into a USB drive then boot it in a Acer Aspire One netbook and all stuff worked! even my USB HUAWEI 3G USB modem.

I am a KDE user, I would like to use a KDE netbook system but for now I need to accept that this GNOME netbook interface is very cool, beautiful and useful.

Great to see YaST! and openSUSE stuff in a Meego.

Thank you! great job!

By: trixtur

trixtur — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:24:31 +0000

nvmd,

For anyone having the same problem as me its in the applications under “Other”

By: trixtur

trixtur — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:18:07 +0000

Anyone know how to install from a flash drive… I can get the OS to boot up but not the installer :( (Its like a live cd without install ability)

By: crown77

crown77 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:36:33 +0000

Tryed the last aviable Release too and also ending up in a white Screen .. is there a Bugfix for this? It makes the whole OS senseless..

By: Skitsanos

Skitsanos — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:12:36 +0000

@Neil try linux/linux i think that’s the default for this build.

By: Gib

Gib — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:27:00 +0000

The live CD is set up for a user controlled network, but the installed system is not. Here’s how to remedy that:

Click applications icon.
Click System.
Click Yast.
Click Network Settings.
Click Global Options tab.
Click User Controlled with network manager.
Click OK.
Ignore error message.
Exit Yast.
Click Network icon at top of screen.
Available networks are scanned and displayed. Select yours and enter password if required.
That’s it.

All the above is undocumented, because users are supposed to know these steps through intuition or telepathy or considerable experience with Linux. Users without such mental gifts or experience are left to the frustrations of trial and error, as I was, and/or searching the internet for tips, as you have done.

Oh, it was also necessary for me to blacklist a driver for my wireless adapter. After a lot more time searching the internet, I was able to do that, too.

Smeegol is working fine now.

By: lala

lala — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:50:49 +0000

Do you mean:

dd if=PATH_TO_SMEEGOL_ISO of=/dev/sdb [physical path to device]

while making sure that your usb device is unmounted?

Wouldn’t be bad to give this info on top of the site with bold text.
Also, maybe make the download link for the ISO stand out a bit more.
TNX! :)

By: beto

beto — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:17:35 +0000

in windows, you can use a program called win32diskimager.