#Ubuntu aspire 5100 how to
This page gives a nice rundown of how to do the actual installation process. In those settings you can select to boot to USB as the first order of boot. On the Acer Aspire One models this means that you press the DEL key during boot. Then you'll boot the computer and change the boot order to boot to USB drive first. I recommend that you use unetbootin for this. ISO (an image file) and some special software to do this. Now, this is not really a direct copy, you don't just drag and drop it there. ISO from the site then you will want to copy the image to a USB drive. ISO file from the site linked above to your current PC. Using Windows you can just insert the drive, open Windows Explorer, right click on it, and select to format the drive.Äownload the. You will want to format the drive in FAT32. This means that you'll loose any information that you already have on that drive so be sure to back that information up. For the sake of consistency, I strongly recommend that you do go ahead and use the LTS version until you're used to it and then you can decide if you want to use something a little more bleeding edge. Again, your CPU is 64 bit so you will want to download the 64 bit version. Because of this, I'm going to actually suggest that you download the LTS ( Long Term Stable) version. So, your post indicates that you're new to Linux or, at least, to Lubuntu. That download is for the 15.10 release which has a shorter support time-frame. You will want the 64 bit version which can be downloaded here. In the Ubuntu family, the lowest resource usage is with Lubuntu which uses the lxde desktop environment.