Reinstall gOS in Cloudbook? Send it back to Everex
by atticus ~ February 25, 2008
One of our forumers, mickeyboa, faced some issues with his Cloudbook and contacted Everex about reinstalling gOS. Everex reply was not good.
I just got off the phone with Everex and they gave me some bad news.
I’m having problems with X starting.
I ask them about reloading gOS they told me that you could not connect a external USB CDrom to the CloudBook for reloading the OS.
You had to remove the hard drive from CloudBook and put it into another
Laptop and install OS and then put it back into the CloudBook.
And the worst is, When you open CloudBook to pull hard drive the Warranty
is void !!!
They said that you could send it back to them and they would reflash OS for you.
About a three week turn a round.
I wonder why one cannot connect an external USB CDROM or USB Hard Drive to their Cloudbook and install their choice OS. Users have been happily doing it on their Asus EeePC. Anyway, it is probably a bad idea not to ship the Cloudbook with some form of a recovery CD.
Read the forum thread here.
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February 25th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
The Everex person you talked to is not well informed.
External CD players and hard-disks DO work with the CloudBook, and you can also put gOS on a 1 GB USB memory stick. What’s more the CloudBook’s BIOS actually detects an external USB drive and when it does it will automatically boots from it.
see this forums entry:
http://forum.cloudbooker.com/viewtopic.php?id=222
February 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
You are right, it appears that mickeyboa was given some bad information. Hopefully, guides on OS installation for Cloudbook users will start appearing soon.