Dear Josh,
I think I see what I have been doing wrong on the boot disk build.
Thanks!
Regards,
Flint
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Josh Sled wrote:
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:47:21 -0500
From: Josh Sled <[email protected]>
To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Flint <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: eee pc
Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes:
One of the local geeks got an eee pc 1000. We are trying to make it do some
good things, boot off the usb, load Ubuntu, work with a wacom tablet, and
etc. Simple things really...
While I have learned a bit about the Xandros distro, I crave someone to talk
to about this thing. Anybody got one of these beasties out there?
I've got my EEE 900 for a year or so now that I put ubuntu-eee 8.04 on ???
just last night, actually. :) The Xandros distro was okay, but kinda
lame.
I was actually going to go through the process (of installing ubuntu on
the EEE) and some of the post-install tweaks I made, as this month's
VAGUE meeting, actually. Heh. Good timing, Paul.
I'd be happy to lend the installer SD card (or make another copy) to the
1000 for the meeting ??? if you're willing to install it there. Or, at
least, boot it Live-CD style and see if it works and such.
Or, if you're not willing to wait, I found the following links very
useful:
-
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080727-running-ubuntu-on-the-eee-pc.html
- Critical details for getting the SD card bootable, though I still
had to do it twice.
- http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/
- Heh. Literally as I've been typing this email this link changed
from being their historical media-wiki site to the new
<http://www.geteasypeasy.com/>, as I understand Easy Peasy 1.0 will be
released imminently. Ubuntu-EEE was 8.04-based, and had naming
conflicts with both Canonical and Asus, so they're rebranding to
"Easy Peasy"; 1.0 is based off ubuntu 8.10, I understand.
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC
- less useful; Easy Peasy seems to have more momentum.
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Paul Flint
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