well... I got one:

well... I got one:

[tony seth]

Hi all:  I got an Asus eee, the 4 gig one, as I couldn't get the eight 
gigger... and got into the bios all right, with a bit of help, probably 
one of the easiest ones I've ever had to deal with, but after getting 
the live ubuntu cd to run, decided to take a peek at the flash drive's 
partitions, and discovered two linux partitions, and a couple of fat 
partitions too.  The question I have now,, is can I delete all the 
partitions safely without killing the bios, an odd question I know, but 
wasn't sure if the bios stuff is on the flash drive, or is it separate?
The other curiosity is that although grml works, the latest one, using 
espeak, I get the message "error: oss failed to load mixer device" when 
starting swspeak, and of course I can't turn up any of the volumes.  Is 
anyone else using grml on an asus eee?  Thanks much for any help with 
this critter, I like it already... Cheereo!

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RE: well... I got one:

[Georgina]

The question I have now,, is can I delete all the 
partitions safely without killing the bios, an odd question I know, but 
wasn't sure if the bios stuff is on the flash drive, or is it separate? 

Visit the eeeuser forums and see what people are doing with them.

www.eeeuser.com
Gena

RE: well... I got one:

[Georgina]

Hi

Here's what I wrote for the orca list:

Orca and Asus EEE PC	
Hi

I've been playing with my Asus eee PC and had a very frustrating time with
it.  I intend upon putting something the wiki but a little busy at the
moment.  In short here's what I found.

Don't try following the howto's:
Installing Gnome on the preinstalled system.
Don't use the eeeXUbuntu image.

What does seem to work:
Installing Gutsy standard iso.  However, it nearly fills the 4Gig disk space
and you have a machine without wireless support and the advanced power
management stuff.

I've now installed debian and built a gnome system with the latest debian
unstable orca package, which has used 59% of disk space.  So I'm guessing by
the time I've installed Open Office and Firefox the disk will be full again.

You can see my requests for help on the eee user forum, my username is
linux-maiden.

Until I can establish a simple method, it's not for the faint hearted.
 
Asus have used:

The Atheros wireless driver: Search for the Madwifi for linux support.

The on board Ethernet uses the atl2 driver that has to be built and
installed.  While not very difficult it is a pain.  There's a lot more than
the internet connectivity that requires attention.

There's plenty of stuff for you to read at:  www.eeeuser.com

Gena

Re: well... I got one:

[Kerry Hoath]

Bios is in deed in a flash rom; you can delete partitions without a problem.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgina" <gena@mga.demon.co.uk>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
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Subject: RE: well... I got one:


>
> The question I have now,, is can I delete all the
> partitions safely without killing the bios, an odd question I know, but
> wasn't sure if the bios stuff is on the flash drive, or is it separate?
>
> Visit the eeeuser forums and see what people are doing with them.
>
> www.eeeuser.com
> Gena
>
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Re: well... I got one:

[Kerry Hoath]

Stuffing a 4gb or 8gb sdhc card in the side certainly gives you a pile of 
storage.
You might want to boot Linux off an external usb hard drive whilst 
developing the image; I personally gave up on Gnome and Orca for now as
Jaws and Windows are far more functional and I find Orca sluggish even on 
fast machine;
note however I have not investigated the cause of this lately.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgina" <gena@mga.demon.co.uk>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:02 AM
Subject: RE: well... I got one:


> Hi
>
> Here's what I wrote for the orca list: