FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 12 19:21:30 UTC 2009


Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I jsuyt purchased a mildly used ASUS Eee 700 (something, seller was 
> not explicit) from ebay.
>
> Has a 4Gb SSD and 512Mb ram.  Also an SD slot.  It is coming with some 
> Linux (assume Ubuntu?), but want something I am more used to.  I would 
> have gone with Centos, but could never get my SD slot on my HP nc4010 
> working.
>
> So I figured I want a little stablity so I would go with FC9 (really 
> 9.5) and I should get enough to fit on that 4Gb drive (2Mb swap for 
> hibernation to swap).  And I should be able to get virtual windowing 
> to work so I have a large enough desktop for most things I will be doing.
>
> Is FC9 the way to go, or should I take the dive with FC10?  What are 
> others running on their Eee?
>
>
I have a 700 with 8gb SSd and it's going to be tight to get anything on it .
I have FC10 and all hardware has drivers for it in FC10. Easy install.
I would suggest you allocate 3gb to / and 1gb to /home , to get a deceit 
install .




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