On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 08:43 +1000, Kyle wrote: > Ok. Thanks. It's just that across the top of their website, they list > the various > dist's they have packages for. Namely; > > Ubuntu > Debian > OpenSUSE > Gentoo > > Which as far as I know are all Debian based. They don't mention any > rpm's, so I just figured.
openSUSE is RPM-based. And from looking at the website, <http://unetbootin.wiki.sourceforge.net/supported-distributions>, it also supports Fedora and Mandriva, which are RPM-based. If you want fully-supported hardware on your Eee on Linux, my suggestion is to go for Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. No need for the funky kernels like in 8.10 and earlier. The official method of installation *is* via USB. Once you download the Netbook Remix image, making it bootable on your flash drive is as simple as: # dd if=/path/to/netbook-remix.img of=/dev/sdX bs=20M Where sdX is your flash drive. After that, it should boot. Don't forget to type 'sync' before unplugging your flash drive.
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