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Dell Mini 10 with ATIB (non-Netbook edition)?

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I'm trying to make my rescue media from ATIB 2010 (13.0.6053) boot my Dell Mini 10, and it throws a bunch of errors and reboots.

I understand (now) that the NetBook Edition is made for this computer, and that it's a {sub,super}set of the regular ATIB, and I guess I'll have to buy yet another copy, but my real question is:

Is there a way (startup parameters?) to make ATIB 13 work on a NetBook, or do I have to buy the NetBook edition for netbooks and the regular edition for everything else?

I was hoping to move the license from her ASUS NetBook to the new computer, is there any way to do that?

Thanks!

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Are you getting the errors and the reboot when using TI (in Windows) to create the TI rescue media or is it when you try to boot it?

If you have TI 2010 installed on another computer, you could make the rescue media using it instead. You could also download the ISO file from your Acronis account and either create a CD from it or a flashdrive (booting via Grub4DOS).

Moving the license to another computer isn't a problem. Just uninstall it from the netbook and install it on the new computer.

I'm getting the errors when I try to boot from a TI Rescue Media built on another machine. Unfortunately, the other machine isn't running the NetBook Edition, so it looks like I've got to have two sets of licenses, some for the (many) "regular" machines and a few (one so far) for the NetBook, does that sound right?

Thanks!

I would recommend trying the trial version of TI Netbook Edition. Find out if it boots successfully and sees all required drives before you buy it.

Yeah, if only the trial versions let you build bootable media, I could do that.

Oh well, I spent my hard-earned dollars on a copy of it, burned the bootable rescue media, and was presented with 8 options, with various esoteric names, which I've renamed for the non-techy crowd:

1 - Crash (at ATIB logo)
2 - Hang (at sdb SCSI removable disk)
3 - Crash
4 - Hang (at sg2)
5 - Crash
6 - Stops at BusyBox prompt
7 - Crash
8 - Hang (at sg2)

It seems to be complaining about the fact that ipwatchd can't load libpcap.so, which seems to be some kind of packet capture library.

Sigh. And the marketing literature specifically says it's built for this exact model of Dell Mini. Maybe that's what I get for buying it on April Fools Day.

Good thing my time is worth nothing.