FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jan 12 20:52:48 UTC 2009
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> 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 .
> With only 4Gb, I was considering putting it all in one partition, and
> not risk a miscalc. Then put most of my work on an SD card. Do larger SD
> cards use more power? 8Gb are out, so I could have almost nothing in
> /home, and put almost everything on the SD card.
>
>
Alternatively the price of 16GB thumb (USB) drives is way down, so you could go
that way. Just a thought.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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