I Have A 7" Notebook which was bought this year (2010) that has windows CE on. It doesn't have a disc drive or floppy but only a sd card slot and usb ports. It has a 300mhz processor and 128mb of ram, both soldered directly to the board. What i would like to do is reinstall windows ce or linux. Linux would be the best option but i have tried to install through usb and had no luck. As soon as you turn on the device, there is no bios logo / button to press but instead goes straight to windows ce loading screen and then goes onto system initialising which says: USB...OK, Touchpad...OK, SD...OK, RAM...Ok ETC.
You have to get to your bios to change the boot order to place the usb flash drive first in the boot order. Various computer use different keys to access the bios. You can trial and error pressing different keys when you start up the netbook or go to the manufacturers website and look for the documentation.
If you have only 128MB ram and 300MgHz processor there are many linux distros that will not run on those specs. Most require at least 256 ram and 500 MHz cpu. There are only a couple that will run on those specs like DSL (damn small linux).
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