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> Hey Grant, |
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> I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm |
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> opening a case with asus for repairs...). |
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> First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a |
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> USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye |
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> lite-version-of-xandros-for-kids-or-retards-only). |
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> Slax comes with scripts to automate the process of making the key bootable. |
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> Go into the bios while the key is in, and you will be able to choose your |
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> "USB Megacorp key drive" (or whatever) as the boot device, reboot and enjoy |
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> a very nice, complete, full featured linux distribution. |
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> It should easilly become your rescue disk for your EeePC. |
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> From there, you will simply follow all instructions for installing gentoo |
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> on your sdd hd in a chrooted environment. This will work exactly like with |
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> the cd (well, you'll have to work with it as if it was a network install and |
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> download the relevant packages). Slax comes with konqueror as the browser, |
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> but you can download modules to get firefox instead and simply place them in |
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> the key, if i remember right at /<path-to-key>/slax/modules/. |
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> Have fun! |
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Thanks a lot for everyone's help. I'm going to dig into this very soon. |
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- Grant |
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>> I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure |
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>> how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic |
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>> options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new |
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>> stuff to get this done. Can anyone recommend a simple method? I have |
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>> a wired/wireless LAN/internet connection and 3 systems on the LAN |
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>> running Gentoo. No USB drive though. |
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>> - Grant |