Last night, I finally had a free moment–amidst watching movies with family–to try installing UbuntuEee on an Asus Eee I’d brought home from work for just that purpose. UbuntuEee looks like a great solution to run on the Asus Eee but I ran into a few problems…mainly, space.
I had a 2 gig SD card that I tried installing Ubuntu to without success. This was my backup plan since installing UbuntuEee to the AsusEee–even after deleting the main partition–didn’t work. My guess is that I’ll probably have to spend some time reading the forums and invest in a 4 gig or great SD card so that I can install UbuntuEee on it.
In the meantime, I have a “dead” Asus Eee which I’ll have to reload with something from somewhere.
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Miguel, I just got a 4G stick and installed ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) from a bootable cd. It worked fine, with the one exception that I’m not getting Audacity to work just yet. I hadn’t heard of UbuntuEee. Is this just ubuntu that’s installed directly from the website?
Miguel, I just got a 4G stick and installed ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) from a bootable cd. It worked fine, with the one exception that I’m not getting Audacity to work just yet. I hadn’t heard of UbuntuEee. Is this just ubuntu that’s installed directly from the website?
Rick, installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick isn’t tough (read my blog entry on that). UbuntuEee is specifically designed for the Asus Eee netbook. I figured 2 gigs might be enough for a slimmed down version of Ubuntu but apparently, it wasn’t. Caught up in the holidays, I haven’t had time to find out WHY it didn’t work on the 2 gig Asus Eee I have but will eventually (I have to otherwise that Asus Eee is just a chunk of plastic and parts).Thanks for the feedback,Miguel
Rick, installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick isn’t tough (read my blog entry on that). UbuntuEee is specifically designed for the Asus Eee netbook. I figured 2 gigs might be enough for a slimmed down version of Ubuntu but apparently, it wasn’t. Caught up in the holidays, I haven’t had time to find out WHY it didn’t work on the 2 gig Asus Eee I have but will eventually (I have to otherwise that Asus Eee is just a chunk of plastic and parts).Thanks for the feedback,Miguel