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--- On Fri, 5/15/09, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) |
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> gotten my wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I |
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> have a full install with kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel |
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> drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast |
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> compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, |
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> Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all |
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> in a 2.7GB disk footprint, and without doing any compiling |
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> on the eeePC itself (I used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to |
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> do all the heavy lifting, then made a bootable 4GB SD card |
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> with the resulting FS - will move over to internal 4GB SSD |
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> once I've put the final touches on it). I have full |
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> eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found |
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> with the rfkill (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW |
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> (PHY) refuses to power back up once it's turned off. I |
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> believe it was working in the original Xandros, so I'll |
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> probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it working). If |
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> you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write |
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> up how I went about doing it and post it - interested? |
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> -James |
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Yes, very much so. I understand there are issues with too many read/write cycles on the SSHD. Up to now I've re-jiggered the kernel at least a dozen times. I guess I should have put the OS on a card first *then* onto the hard-drive once everything was in order. |
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Have you been here? |
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http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=2613&p=1 |
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### EEEPC #### |
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/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2 |
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# By mounting the tmp directories in a tmpfs |
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# the accesses to the SSD will be decreased. |
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# But you will lose all the data in the tmp directories if the PC shuts down. |
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tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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# If you do not use postfix as a real MTA then you can also add this line: |
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#tmpfs /var/spool/postfix tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
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tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,size=64m 0 0 |
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tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,size=8m 0 0 |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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/gentoo/portage.squashfs /gentoo/portage auto loop,ro 0 0 |
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... |
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Is this overkill? Or the way to go? Believe this was for a 701. |
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Maxim |
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