CentOS on Asus EEE pc
An unofficial team of CentOS developers and Asus EEE pc owners (KB and MH) managed to get CentOS 5 installed over the network onto an EEE pc today.
Wireless and some speed related tweaking are still required.
HOWTO documentation to follow...
pictures here
5 comments:
Very cool! What model EEE pc is this? How large was your install after it was completed?
Just a general comment after looking up the prices of the EEE pc: It seems a bit overpriced. The cheapest model looks like it runs $300, but with only 2gb of storage. Can the SD card just be swapped out with an 8gb? Looks like those run $35-40... but still, pushes the price to $335.
This is a standard 4GB eee PC, CentOS when installed left only 93MB available.
The install was Desktop-GNOME, so it was not an ideal package selection.
Our mission at the time was to get it installed. The default CentOS partitioning on the drive allocated a 1GB swap space.
Programs like the OpenOffice suite don't really look usable on the screen with so some work needs doing to get the fonts and desktop settings into a tolerable state.
Hopefully with some adjustments to package selections, default partitioning and some reskinning of the UI we can create a custom eee CentOS.
The internal storage memory is flash RAM but is not upgradable. You can install an OS on a SSD card , I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 in this way. You must bear in mind that access to the storage card memory is slower than the internal flash and that the machine powers down the card when suspending, which complicates things somewhat.
Regarding being overpriced - the eee PC in the pictures cost 236 pounds - RRP should be 220 pounds including UK VAT (sales tax of 17.5%) but there is a shortage of these machines so suppliers are charging what the market will bear.
People who have seen it think it costs far more than that and are really surprised at the actual price - most of them don't understand the difference between it and 'normal' notebooks so I have to explain that it does not include Windows and a Hard Disk drive.
It is a great machine.
I'd ike to install centos on my 4gb eeepc also.
I hope you can get the free disk space over 1Gb.
thanks!
I've customised the fonts to make more fit within the 800x480 screen.
OpenOffice now fits on the screen.
However since I've not got a lot of space on the drive I can't do much with the packages.
The machine does not shut down cleanly - under Ubuntu the sound driver needs to be unloaded during shutdown.
Need to document all this somewhere. Ideally we need a method of installing CentOS that does not require PXE boot and a customised net boot image.
Nifty! I would strongly prefer to run CentOS 5 on my Eee. I just installed Fedora 9 (after running EeeDora) and I'm not impressed. Any chance you will release the install instructions soon?
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