E-Machines

By gary hypes at 11/05/2009 - 00:17

I know EMs have a bad rep as being poorly built machines. I'm considering
buying one (very cheap), wiping the hard disk (Windows XP) and installing
Ubuntu. Has anyone encountered specific problems installing and running
Linux/Ubuntu on E-machines PC's?

7 comments

Re: E-Machines

By lziegler at 11/05/2009 - 12:21

I have an eepc with Ubuntu which works very well. The only problem I had
was with sound volume and if you go to the eeebuntu page and go to the
forums you can solve it easily. I assume you are talking about one of
their netbooks.

Lynn

Re: E-Machines

By Joseph at 11/05/2009 - 08:07

I bought a neW E-Machine and just after the warranty ran out, it broke
down. It wouldn't install from the install DVD. I decoded to load
Ubuntu on it. Yeah right. It wouldn't take it. New machine, good for
parts only. I hope you have more luck than I had.

Re: E-Machines

By Graham Todd at 11/05/2009 - 13:55

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:07:10 -0600
Joseph <ubuntu@e-pops.org> uttered these words:

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Well E-Machines computer certainly are both cheap and inexpensive, but
this is not my experience at all, as I said. You have to fiddle with
the BIOS (as someone else said) to make sure the CD/DVD boots first,
but then you have to do that with any computer new to you.

I have never had a tower that didn't install Ubuntu, Kubuntu or
Xubuntu, but if you're at all worried buy a second hand one on eBay.

My experience is in the UK. Are they built more solidly over here?

Re: E-Machines

By Wade Smart at 11/05/2009 - 08:56

Emachine & Gateway are the same company now.
I didnt have trouble on my gateway but on others, I have.

What I did with one emachine is go into BIOS, set cd(dvd) as the first
boot device, boot up to live cd, wipe the hd with partition manager,
then install ubuntu.

Wade

Re: E-Machines

By Fred A. Miller at 11/05/2009 - 01:09

I've installed openSUSE 11.0 on 3 different models of late with no
problems, so I would think you'd not have a problem with 9.10.

Fred

Re: E-Machines

By Graham Todd at 11/05/2009 - 09:23

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:09:33 -0500
"Fred A. Miller" < ... at lightlink dot com> uttered these words:

I've found E-Machines excellent for running Ubuntu, BUT I would not
install Karmic on a new machine until Karmic has been around for a
month or more - just to iron out any last remaining problems and to get
yourself aware of any major snags.

I'd suggest installing Ubuntu 9.04 ("Jaunty") for now and then
later upgrading to Karmic. You will not need to wipe the hard disk if
you partition the whole disk, but again I'd suggest that you have a
separate /home partition on a separate hard disk to keep your data
discrete.

Re: E-Machines

By Putu Wiramaswar... at 11/05/2009 - 00:24

2009/11/5 GARY HYPES < ... at gmail dot com>:

What series is that?
If had tried it on D14xx series, and it's great with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.