Hey guys,

It’s no doubt my post about how to flash an Aspire One’s bios was my most popular yet, so I thought I might revisit the topic now that there are many different revisions of the One out, and now that my main OS is Linux

Linux (Debian Based)

I thought I’d start off by saying, I haven’t been following the updates, as I haven’t needed one since the last post, so they may work different than how they used to, although I highly doubt it.

http://global-download.acer.com/GDHome.aspx?SC=PA_7&LC=en# - Acer has a new drivers download page, accommodating for the new versions of the netbook.

Requirements: Your Aspire One, a Power point and AC adapter, a compatible flash drive with about 4MB free

Instructions:

1. Install Unetbootin – Open a root terminal and type: (Don’t worry if it says it’s already installed, thats good )

   apt-get install unetbootin

2. Plug your flash drive in (and if possible remove all other usb storage devices) and make sure you have your firmware zip handy
3. At your root prompt run

   unetbootin

4. Select FreeDOS in the distribution field.
5. Leave everything else
6. Select your flash drive in the “Drive:” field, if you followed Step 2, there should be only one selection available. (this is why I said to unplug your other stuff before, if you have more than one flash drive plugged in, it shows more than one selection)
7. Click OK, and wait.
8. Mount your flash drive by selecting it from the (generally) places menu.
9. Extract firmware to flash drive which you can get here.
10. Follow the rest of the instructions here.

Good luck fellow Linux geeks

Don’t forget to email me or leave a comment if you have any problems and I’ll see what I can do

Aaron.