Make sure you take notes now Paul lol On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 00:55 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: > 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. > > > > -- > > ...jsled > > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^ -- warmest regards,
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