I finally managed to get a BSD on the additional Acer Aspire One
(A150/ZG5) I got from a relative. There was once Win7 on the poor
thing.
First I tried with OpenBSD, which I have on at least two other machines
at work (two running, but maybe there is another sitting around
somewhere..), but it looks like neither the Ethernet nor WiFi will
work, and that renders the effort somewhat useless. I then put FreeBSD
(minimal version) on a USB stick, booted, connected my LAN, and
installed everything (so far except X, because I intend to use the
machine for text only stuff). That was over the weekend, and in the
meantime, I've also managed to start WiFi (can't say I got it working,
because I only needed to add some lines to loader.conf and rc.conf),
currently using my Android tablet as hotspot. Update: now also working
on my home wifi. ^-^
And yes, this I'm writing now on that FreeBSD Aspire, yay! So nice for
a change, to have a complete system on 2 GB of disk space (95 GB left,
will never fill it)!
Now it becomes reasonable to look for a spare/new battery, as the
current one is quite dead. With FreeBSD working, it should be worth it,
so that I can use this thing as a writing/coding machine.
