Linux developers Follow the steps on this page for downloads and installing MeeGo on your Netbook and you'll be ready to go mobile!
Windows Instructions Use a Windows app to install the MeeGo OS on your currently Windows OS computer.
Overview
Steps for loading the MeeGo live image on your netbook, nettop, or PC:- Download the latest live image.
- Byte-copy the image to a USB drive.
- Boot the image on your netbook, nettop, or PC.
System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Atom or Intel Core 2 CPU (support for SSSE3)
Note: MeeGo will not work on non-SSSE3 CPUs - Platforms with the GMA-500, Nvidia, or ATI graphics chipsets are not supported
- A tested netbook or nettop platform
About Live Images
The MeeGo live image is designed to be used with a USB drive. A netbook or PC can be booted from the USB drive without modifying its hard drive or configuration. This lets you test drive an image before installing it. When you are done, just remove the USB drive and reboot. If you like what you see, you can then install MeeGo from the same live image.- 1 Download the Live Image
- The live image is available from the netbook downloads page. Save the image to a known location, so you can access it in step 2.
- 2 Byte-copy the image to a USB drive
- You will need a USB drive with at least the capacity of the downloaded image. Note: A byte-exact copy of the image must be placed on the USB drive. It is not sufficient to simply copy the image file to the drive. Be aware that the contents of the USB drive will be completely erased.
- Image Writer (recommended, requires Python >=2.4)
Image Writer is a small python executable script that detects your USB drive and writes the image to it. The advantage of using image writer is that it will not inadvertently overwrite your system hard drive. Download Image Writer# cd <directory with downloaded image-writer file>
# chmod a+x ./image-writer
# ./image-writer <image file>
- Use 'dd' from the command-line
Caution: 'dd' will overwrite any destination including your system hard disk. Make sure you know the correct value of <usb drive> before proceeding.# dd bs=4096 if=<image file> of=<usb drive>
- Download the Win32DiskImager.exe program:
https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download (zip file) - Unzip the file and extract the contents to a known directory
- Run W32DiskImager.exe
- Select the MeeGo image file (.img)
- Select the drive letter which corresponds to the USB key
- Click the "Write" button to byte-copy the image to the USB drive.
- Open a Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)
- Run to get the current list of devices
diskutil list
- Insert your flash media
- Run again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (for example /dev/disk2)
diskutil list
- Run (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
- Run(replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the place you downloaded the image. You'll need your password for this.
sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m
- Run
(where N is the number we found above) and remove your flash media when the command completesdiskutil eject /dev/diskN
- You're done! Proceed to Step 3: Boot the image
- 3 Boot the image on your netbook, nettop, or PC
- Insert the USB drive into your netbook, nettop, or PC and reboot. Make sure that the boot order tries the USB drive first.
Linux Instructions
Be sure the USB drive is unmounted before proceeding. Some Linux distributions auto mount the USB drive when it is inserted, which can cause corruption when writing.# umount <usb-drive>