Phil Endecott wrote: > I've always used PXE network booting to start the Debian installer, > rather than a CD or USB flash drive. I find this method quick and > easy, but since this wasn't mentioned as an option on the Debian Eee > wiki I had guessed that it wasn't possible on the Eee. However, my 901 > definitely has PXE as an option (once you have found the right BIOS > settings) and it has just booted into an old Debian installer it found > on my tftp server (predictably, it gets as far as "no ethernet card was > detected").
A progress update: I'm using the latest PXE netboot debian installer, which runs on the Eee but unsurprisingly doesn't contain the necessary ethernet kernel modules. But I happen to have a USB ethernet device for which it does have the modules. So, I set up the BIOS for network booting, it loads over the built in ethernet, and I then swap the network cable over to the USB adaptor and it installs debian using that. So I now have a basically functional system. Next to get the built-in wired ethernet working. There are some notes in the Wiki from IsaacTo who points to http://kunin.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/asus-eee-pc-901/; that page tells me to go to http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?product=1&SLanguage=us-en&type=map&model=P5KPL-CM to get a driver for the wired ethernet from ASUS. When I click on that link I get a page that's not related to the Eee, but if I click on "Drivers" there is something described as "Supported Linux Drivers"; I download a the zip, inside which there's something called l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4.rar which looks good. But unrar-free fails to unpack it. Luckily, wobzip.org can convert it to a .zip for me. Then I install linux-headers (and a compiler etc) and I can compile and install it (using KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 and ignoring the warnings). It then almost works, but I have to clean out /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net so that it is eth0 not eth1. Now I just have to work out all the things that you've put in the custom installer that I've missed, and to get the wifi working. Cheers, Phil. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
