Restoring the DELL Mini 9 to its Ubuntu image
My aunt had been having some trouble recently wiht her DELL Mini 9. These are well designed little laptops, but they don’t have an optical drive. When they go wrong, you’re left paddling upstream through the blue waters of death – if you opted for Windows. If you opted for Ubuntu, you’re even more screwed, because finding an image to restore the Mini 9 is next to impossible. Usually, DELL are very good about making software & drivers available, but not this time!
Installing a plain copy of Ubuntu is a bad idea, as the DELL copy is optimised for the hardware it is installed on.
Luckily, I managed to find a copy of the DELL Ubuntu image and successfully copy it to a USB key. To find out how, read this article: Restore UBUNTU to your DELL MINI 9