- Joined
- Nov 13, 2004
- Location
- Brookline, MA
I inherited an EeePC (HA1005) from a client; as far as I can tell there's nothing physically wrong with it, she just got annoyed at the short battery life (I've noticed that the battery will discharge even when turned off if left unplugged..not really an issue but I would like to get that fixed if it's financially viable).
I'm planning to turn it into a security testing rig and have been trying to install Kali Linux. I have the bootable flash drive and it works in a laptop. However...first attempt, I'm able to get to the partitioning stage and then "SIGKILL sent to all processes"--bam, shutdown. Subsequent tries won't even let it get to the partition stage, I get the same result with a netbook-optimized Ubuntu (my other plan was to install another *nix flavor first and then try dual-booting).
The original OS was Win7 Starter, and I realize now that I didn't format the drive first.
Any ideas (besides what I should have done in the first place)? I might try an older version of BackTrack and see what that does.
I'm planning to turn it into a security testing rig and have been trying to install Kali Linux. I have the bootable flash drive and it works in a laptop. However...first attempt, I'm able to get to the partitioning stage and then "SIGKILL sent to all processes"--bam, shutdown. Subsequent tries won't even let it get to the partition stage, I get the same result with a netbook-optimized Ubuntu (my other plan was to install another *nix flavor first and then try dual-booting).
The original OS was Win7 Starter, and I realize now that I didn't format the drive first.
Any ideas (besides what I should have done in the first place)? I might try an older version of BackTrack and see what that does.