EEEPC FC11 install
fred smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Sun Jun 28 20:21:58 UTC 2009
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:08:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 19:49 +1000, Andrew Cocker wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
> > Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
> > have had to restart from scratch. The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
> > tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive. I tried both
> > livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive. In every
> > attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
> > creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
> > mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
> >
> > Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug? Should I try reinstalling FC10
> > and upgrading to FC11 instead?
>
> I started with F10 and upgraded. Everything worked. Probably not
> relevant but I also dual-boot with Windows so I had to fiddle with the
> partitioning using gparted from a Live USB stick (the default Asus
> Windows layout uses all four basic partitions).
>
> poc
Depending on the model, F11 can run quite well. There's a thread on
the fedora forums about instlaling F11 on the eeepc 901:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224741
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