I finally got it (sage) to work on the asus. Here are some random comments.

1. A lot of preporatory work was done on my ubuntu desktop.
For example,  the sd card is mounted as root and typically formatted
as vfat. I reformatted
as ext2. Also, for copying, I didn't use the command line (even with
sudo cp -r ..."
I ran into problems) but used "sudo konqueror".  I also umounted and
remounted the
sd card to a different location (also possibly unecessary) using the
mount -o exec option.

2. The version
http://www.sagemath.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/sage-3.0.2-debian32-intelx86-i686-Linux.tar.gz
when decompressed and copied to the sd card just seems to work as is.
*However* (this is important), on the asus I tweaked the /sbin/probedevice file
in the asus (which may have not been necessary).

3. I tested both the command line and notebook version. Both seemed to run
fine (Firefox was installed by default and no other programs other than the
factory installed ones seemed to be on the asus, AFAIK). There was a
traceback error at
start but it seemed to be harmless. (I haven't gotten wifi configured
on it yet, so can't
paste the traceback into this email.)

4. The slax install mentioned later in the thread did not work since
that seems to assume that
the sd card is formatted as vfat.


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've wondered about this myself, but I don't have an Eee.  Please post
> whatever you find out; I think the Eees look pretty sweet.
>
> It should be pretty easy to do, the chip is a standard Intel x86
> (centrino?).  As for memory, my G4 apple laptop only has 512 of memory
> right now, and sage runs reasonably well on it - the 3d graphics
> strain it a bit, but that's more the G4 chip's fault than the memory I
> think.
>
> Cheers,
> M. Hampton
>
> On Jan 20, 5:46 pm, JohnGuin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Has anyone tried this?  I'm not sure if the flavor of Linux on the Eee
>> will support Sage, and am also curious if 512MB of RAM is enough.
>>
>> If anyone has actually run this config, please let me know.  Thanks
>> all!
>>
>> John
> >
>

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