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| Old Man... |
 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:37 pm |
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Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
Quote: Ok, so Slackware with an upgraded kernel on the EeePC is good to go,
then? I have a large SD card that I think I'm going to try installing
Slackware-13.0 on to try booting the EeePC from. Am I aiming for
disappointment, or should it be reasonably doable?
Very doable, and easy, with two caveats. It will be noticeably slow running
from an SD card, and you should not expect suspend/resume to work.
Quote: Otherwise, I suppose
an external hard drive, connected to the EeePC via USB might be just
as good?
Better, as it will run at a more normal speed, but still, suspend/resume
will not work. This is not a Slackware issue. It has to do with the root
drive being on the USB bus.
Quote: The idea here is to get this working to my liking before
contemplating replacing the original Xandros OS ...
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| Old Man... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:28 pm |
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Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
Quote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:08 -0400, Old Man wrote:
Is it reasonable to boot the Slackware install CD on another system
(with a CD drive) and install to SD from there and then try and boot the
SD in the EeePC? (I know, I really just just try it and see for myself,
but the SD, the EeePC, and my Slackware CD set are all at home right now
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That will work.
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| Sylvain Robitaille... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:24 am |
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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:14:42 -0500, Ed Wilson wrote:
Quote: ... The biggest drawback ... is if the device node is different in
the install environment than the target machine, if it is you have to
edit /etc/fstab and possibly reinstall lilo.
I'm reasonably comfortable with these aspects that they should not
present a problem if editting becomes necessary. Thanks.
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Sylvain Robitaille syl at (no spam) encs.concordia.ca
Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| Peter Chant... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:00 pm |
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Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
Quote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:56:34 +0000, Peter Chant wrote:
I think I upgraded the kernel, the lan, wifi and I think sound
chipsets were all very new stuff that was not in the default kernel
iirc.
Ok, so Slackware with an upgraded kernel on the EeePC is good to go,
then? I have a large SD card that I think I'm going to try installing
Slackware-13.0 on to try booting the EeePC from. Am I aiming for
disappointment, or should it be reasonably doable? Otherwise, I suppose
an external hard drive, connected to the EeePC via USB might be just
as good? The idea here is to get this working to my liking before
contemplating replacing the original Xandros OS ...
I tried running Slax on a 8GB SD card, but for Slackware 12.2 I simply used
dd to take an image of the SSD drive (mine has the 16GB SSD) and did a fresh
install. Then I built a new kernel. If you've got 4GB only on the 700 you
may need to be more selective in what you install. The basic process was:
Image SSD drive
Standard install of Slackware 12.2
- ensure use ext2 for file system
- tweak fstab acordingly (can't remember exact option but google netbook,
SSD, fstab ought to get you there)
- Build and install latest kernel
- Get wifi on/off keys working.
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| Peter Chant... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:02 pm |
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Old Man wrote:
Quote: Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
Ok, so Slackware with an upgraded kernel on the EeePC is good to go,
then? I have a large SD card that I think I'm going to try installing
Slackware-13.0 on to try booting the EeePC from. Am I aiming for
disappointment, or should it be reasonably doable?
Very doable, and easy, with two caveats. It will be noticeably slow
running from an SD card, and you should not expect suspend/resume to work.
Personally I found Slax, on both eee and desktop not to be noticably slower.
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