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I bought an HP Mini about a year ago and I've never been able to use it. My friend sold it to me and it was a great little machine when I first looked at it. It was running Windows 7 but he decided to wipe the entire HDD (including the recovery partition). It doesn't have a optical drive.

Anyway, I have no idea what the computer needs at this point. I was able to make a boot drive for Ubuntu on a thumb drive and it works.. Barely. It's super slow and never stops reminding me I'm out of space. I want to install Ubuntu and be some with it but I'm not sure how... Or if the thing even has enough space for it.

I tried installing it, running it.. Nothing is working and I guess it's because it needs drivers but how do I know which ones I need? It seems like it should be so simple but every time I try something else I end up putting it back in the closet for another 3 months. Can someone please help with this?

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You can easily install Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (32-bit), from USB. I have done this successfully on 20 (or more) HP 210-1000s Netbooks (and similar/earlier models). Check elsewhere on this forum on how to create the USB installer.

It needs to be 32-bit, due to issues with Intel Atom graphics chipset/drivers.

You may have issues with WiFi, but check output from: dmesg | grep -e b43 -e Broadcom -e 43xx

Fix is: (using Ethernet cable)

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43

To confirm:

dmesg | grep -e b43 -e Broadcom -e 43xx
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