Acer Aspire One D250

Hardware
lspci

Installation
This was a difficult install as the current minimal install CD image I used to make my usb flash install disk did not support either of my network interfaces. I had alredy entirely wiped the hard drive of the windows install and was unable to try the install with a liveCD image.

If you don't have networking, find a way to get the netbook to boot to linux and copy the following files to the netbook:

the base install files
 * portage-latest.tar.bz2
 * stage3-i686-20090915.tar.bz2

these go in /usr/portage/distfiles
 * bin86-0.16.17.tar.gz
 * dhcpcd-4.0.13.tar.bz2
 * dolilo-0.5.tar.bz2
 * genpatches-2.6.30-7.base.tar.bz2
 * genpatches-2.6.30-7.extras.tar.bz2
 * libnl-1.1.tar.gz
 * lilo-22.8.src.tar.gz
 * linux-2.6.30.tar.bz2
 * pciutils-3.0.2.tar.gz
 * syslog-ng_2.1.4.tar.gz
 * vixie-cron-4.1.tar.bz2
 * wpa_supplicant-0.6.9.tar.gz

Fill in any gaps in the installation process outlined here using the Gentoo quick install guide to get a basic system set up.

Hardware
and used the Acer Aspire One A110L guide extensively. I will outline what I did different here.

BIOS Upgrade
I had already completely wiped windows when I realized the BIOS I had was out of date. Using Windows 2K running in Virtualbox, I installed freeDos on my trusty thumb drive per these instructions then installed the latest BIOS from Acer

Make a bootable thumbdrive per the instructions linked above, add the DOS folder from the bios archive. Boot from the thumb drive and you will be in a DOS prompt.

run the following commands

reboot