Hi everyone, I managed to install Debian Squeeze on my Asus EeePC 1005PE, using the daily build of Debian Installer from March 17th. It worked almost out of the box (SynrG: thanks!).
The installer booted and recognized the hardware without any problems (both the LAN and WLAN). I added acpi_osi="Linux" to the boot command line parameters; changing brightness during the installation also worked. I used the LAN (wired) for installation, it worked without any problems. WLAN wouldn't work for me, it couldn't get a DHCP address even after switching the router from WPA2 to no encryption (the installer asks only about WEP, might be an installer issue, not with the hardware - never did a wireless netinstall before, no idea if it ever worked). I got into some problems with partitioning. I chose Encrypted LVM in Guided Partitioning, chose sda (the 250GB Hitachi drive) but when it tried to create the LVM, it failed with sda5 busy, access denied. I retried that installer step, same result. I restarted the netbook, the same problem. The workaround is to drop into another console before the partitioning step, and manually delete all partitions with fdisk; it works without any problems after that. I think there is something about the factory partitions that confuses the kernel or installer, since once I had Linux partitions instead of an empty partition table, overwriting them was no problem for Debian Installer (I couldn't resist testing, I just had to know :). Oh, erasing the data on sda2 takes about 4-5 hours, so be ready to wait if you want full disk encryption. The rest went without any issues, I deselected all tasks offered by tasksel (I always do that, and install later what I really need). When rebooting in the final system, the LUKS key has to be entered using an US keyboard layout, instead of the one you had during installation (German layout, in my case). The LAN was also not seen at all by the installed system, although the atl1c module was loaded. Toggling the WLAN from the keyboard (Fn-F2) also toggles the LAN, so I immediately got a DHCP address and everything worked fine. As I said, I just have the base system installed now, so there's not yet much to say about what works and what doesn't, except that the installation works, with the small caveats above. I'll continue installing stuff in the next days and see what is not fully working. If there are any questions, or I can help in any way... Best regards, Laurențiu _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
