HP makes MIE installation and recovery files available for download, fun times
By Laura June 
posted Feb 7th 2009 7:01AM
posted Feb 7th 2009 7:01AM
We've known this was coming, but plenty of you will no doubt be excited to hear it's finally here. That's right, HP's just made MIE installation files available for the Mini 1000 -- great news if you've wanted to get in on all that MI action. As you can see above, they've unleashed one version to install the recovery tool from an XP machine onto a USB flash drive, and one to install the image from Linux machine to a USB flash drive. There is absolutely no guarantee these images will work with anything other than the Mini 1000, of course, so... watch out!
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meh...there is already a guide over at ubuntu forums that explains how to turn a regular ubuntu install into the mie edition
I believe that just installs the Ubuntu and Firefox themes for MIE, it doesn't include the new HP dashboard. I'd be happy to be wrong though, easier to add it to my current Ubuntu partition than install MIE on a fresh one.
Tried it, they know how to get the the launcher, looks nice but CPU utilization was at 50% on the wind , I don't know how they expect to get it to work well on the Mini 1000
Um, from the look of those file sizes, I'd say that these downloads only allow you to make a restore image of your existing MIE installation. Said restore image can then be used from within either Windows XP or (another flavour of) Linux. If you haven't already got MIE installed, you're out of luck. No? In other words, this is useful for HP MIE edition owners who decide to wipe MIE in favour of XP or some other Linux version and then decide they want to go back, not people who want MIE for free (TM).
When you run it, it downloads the recovery image from the internet.
So, what we need is some kind MIE edition owner to make an image and then upload a torrent.
There is one already: http://www.mininova.org/tor/2230228
The restore image creator downloads the image if necessary to create the boot USB.
... watch what now?
i believe he's refurring to "this space" as in to was for when someone does put it on a generic netbook.
Oh and i downloaded that iimage a while back it always comes through too big and iso programs won't recognise it properly
I dunno, "Laura June" doesn't exactly strike me as a "he".
Installs fine on an EEE pc 1000h, but network (wired/wireless) doesn't work... anyone has a solution?
Bound to be a wifi driver thing, look up what model the HP netbooks use and see if you can swap out the one in your EeePc
hey, how did you install the os. I downloaded the os from the site and let HP mess with my flash drive. What now?
This is kind of vauge. So not only does this installer have the Mie interface but its also the OS?
I downloaded and installed the img onto a flash drive. Now what?
You have to boot from that flash drive. You may need to set the usb as the first bootable drive in the BIOS. Once it boots into the flash drive just follow the directions from there. Once you get it done, repot back with how it went.
I managed to download the file and got hp to install it onto my computer. I am trying to install it on vmware fusion. My computer, both xp and osx, can't open the flash drive after hp messed around with it. I can reformat it and also when I try to start my computer via usb, it can't seem to find it. Any suggestions?
Can somebody tell me how to install this onto my computer (vmware fusion on macbook pro)? I don't know what to do. Step by step please!
No.
Direct Download
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10/COL25940/dennis-stable-install-usb-gm-1.img
You will can always use dd if you know how to use it to copy the image to a drive.
Or the HP crap software to do it.
I tried running this on my Dell XPS M1530, but to no avail. It installed fine, but once I removed the USB drive and rebooted, I got an error saying that the OEM installer failed. From there it suggested doing teh "adduser USERNAME", which I did, but then it asked for a password. I could never get it correct. Oh well, I will wait until somebody figures it out.
Anyone get past the "ume login" prompt yet. Successfully installed in VMWare.
Does the restore file allow you to install it to an sd card?