Thanks I'll give it another go last time I think I just got very frustrated.
NetBSD does have the advantage of being perfect on the Asus in terms of the amount of left over space disk space after installation I just need to try some alternative window managers twm while being very light weight does feel a little primitive these days. On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > I have similar one (not with me atm, not sure the exact model), which runs > i386 -current full time. I find it too slow to do compilations on it, so I > use a VM on a fast XenServer to d my builds, which occasionally include > building live image for i386. I then just write the resulting image to an > sd card and boot the Eee from it (I still haven't figured out how to extend > the partition size to use the entire sd card, the build scritps have > predefined sizes). > > As far as the other query, the usual sequence is: > > - insert the media (USB stick or SD card) > - check the dmesg > - run disklabel on the last seen disk type device (sd/ld/whatever device) > - mount the necessary partition > > Chavdar > > > On 5 March 2013 18:07, Peter Ibbotson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm just about to reinstall on an aging Asus eee 701 and I never quite >> managed to get the SD card to work (or any other usb media for that >> matter). >> >> Basically I'm looking for a dummies guide to mounting / formatting SD >> cards so I can use it as storage for building from source (the poor eee >> only has 4GB internal drive). Does anyone have one? >> > > > > -- > ---- >
