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I did the following to install Crunchbang (8.10) on my Acer Aspire One (SSD). (Most is taken from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne, which has more detailed information. This is just a reminder for myself.)

• Create a bootable usb stick from the iso image using unetbootin.
• Install crunchbang, choosing ext2 file systems.

I installed Ubuntu Hardy on my Acer Aspire One. Accidentally in fact.

I wanted to install the Ubuntu Netbook remix on an external USB disk on my AAO, using the image I found here http://oem-images.canonical.com/unr/. I booted the USB image. It warned me it would wipe my hard disk. Nevertheless I booted, and indeed, it started erasing my internal harddisk instead of my external one :-/ (I thought I would be able to choose a target hard disk; I wasn't.)

By default, every user on my Linux powered Acer Aspire One can sudo any command without having to enter a password. I think this is a bad thing, because this way anyone (or everything) that can access your computer as a local user, can do anything on the system.

The problem is caused by the configuration of sudo, which contains these lines:


## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Enabling multiple user accounts for the Linpus distribution on my Acer Aspire One was not trivial. After booting, the user 'user' is logged on automatically, and this user was the only one which could use sound and the links to documents, music,... This is why I wrote a quick howto.

Before you start: Make sure you have a bootable usb-stick handy, in case your system refuses to boot after changing a file. I used Debian Lenny beta 2, with an updated kernel.