EEPC OS

[Itchy]

Could anybody do me a massive favour?

I have an EEPC collecting dust... namely as the Xandro OS on it is a POS which doesn't really work.. I have some SD cards though..

Many of the install instructions I've found require a CD burner... since none of my PCs have this. Would anybody out there be good enough to make a bootable SD card or an SD card which could install and overwrite the base OS on the EEPC?

If I were to say send you an SD card and postage?

Any takers?

Thanks.
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[CaNsA]

Do you have a dvd burner?
Im sure it will burn CDs too.

Or you could use a pen drive and install from that.

[Frost]

Either pen drive, or network install.
You could also use a USB CD drive.

What are you putting on it?

[neil.]

I would imagine you could use the UNetbootin utility to make a bootable USB/SD. Something like Ubuntu would be good, they make a netbook friendly version as well.

https://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

https://www.ubuntu.com/netbook

I'd be happy to do it if you want to post the card/stick to me though.
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[FreshAL]

I have ubuntu on an eeepc 901

Installed from a bootable USB stick. The stick is still at my ex's house, but if you wait till after the weekend I'll post it to you

[Itchy]

Um yeah I'm thinking of sticking unbuntu on it.

As the Xandros POS the WIFI doesn't work and the BT is also broken. Since I'm considering a move and don't want to be lugging around my heavier dell I thought I best get it fixed and working before taking it away.

I don't have ANY optical drives at all which presents me the biggie problem.

FreshAL / Neil

Thanks for the offer. Will PM later today, have to go out and do something.
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[Frost]

no linux distro is very good for wifi compatability. On ubuntu it detects my wireless card and will let me connect, but then after 1 minute it drops the connection and reconnection attempts never happen.

[Itchy]

[FreshAL]

My eeepc works perfectly with WEP and WPA networks.

I agree, Linix and wifi used to be patchy but it's pretty much sorted now. There might be a few problems with obscure chipsets, but the one in the eeepc (901 anyway) is sorted

[chris-red]

What is the spec of the Netbook? I run windows 7 install from a USB stick on my dell mini 10, thats 1.6ghz with 1 gb of ram
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[Itchy]

I have an old 2008 vintage EEPC901 the linux version, which was supposed to be taken with me on my travels, but because the WIFI is so flaky not to mention short ranged it has been gathering dust for quite some time.
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[Frost]

I have to use some tool that lets me use the windows drivers to access the wireless card from linux. Like i said, it works just not for more than 60 seconds after a restart. I was told at the time that my card was one of the better supported ones, apparently some are a lot worse.

I would expect the eeepc ones to be very well supported as 90% of them only run linux

[Itchy]

Yay those Unbuntu links work!

Spent ages downloading ubuntu netbook edition and even longer making the USB stick bootable.

Unfortunately the trackpad doesn't though.

Nor does it let me scan for WIFI either.
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[FreshAL]

[Itchy]

[Itchy]

Works ok off the USB stick now, it has difficulty connecting to my router though unless I put no password on it, dunno why, nowt can connect to this router, none of my phones or my current note book.

So the router maybe the problem testing it out at a known WIFI spot before installing it, probably as a dual boot system. The v10 of unbuntu has a WIFI scanner in it, not too good though so I installed WIFIradar on it.
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[FreshAL]