Text 13468, 72 rader
Skriven 2009-11-21 14:18:14 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13409 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: EEEPC
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Hello Stephen.

16 Nov 09 00:23, you wrote to me:

 SH> I didn't like the default Xandros either, much for the same reasons.
 SH> I made an image of the drives to an external drive, then proceeded to
 SH> wipe out the UnionFS and set up Fedora 11 on it.  I had previously run
 SH> Fedora 10 from a 16Gb SDHC card in an external USB reader.

Well, so far eeebuntu standard is working well, if slow on a SD Card, if you 
put Fedora on there, then maybe I should give Slackware 13 a go ...

 SH> Well, I won't say that Fedora is small.  There are options to install
 SH> a stripped-down kernel, but I have not done that.  The best option I
 SH> read and used was to place /boot and / on the 4 Gb fast SSD and then
 SH> swap, /home and /usr/share on the slower 16 Gb SSD.  That way, the
 SH> bulk of the package downloads that Fedora uses for updates do not fill
 SH> up the / partition.  In addition, I did encrypt /home and swap as I
 SH> wanted the added security that encryption provides for a travel
 SH> machine.  Even with encryption, it does not seem to slow it down that
 SH> I can tell.

Been thinking about that as well, putting part on the SSD disk and home, var 
and usr on the sd card. Also nice knowing that encryption is a usable option 
...

 SH> This came out of a reinstall where I tried to take some advice that
 SH> was supposed to speed things up, but which instead made my EeePC lock
 SH> up solid a couple of minutes after logging on.  I am pretty sure it
 SH> had to do with following Powertop's suggestion to make a modification
 SH> to supposedly enable cpu scaling.  Regardless, the reinstall was
 SH> needed as I was running short on space with the old installation.
 SH> Now, I am at a much safer 55% full for / instead of 85-96% full which
 SH> I was at before.

eeebuntu has an option for CPU scaling - kicks in when operating from the 
battery, and goes to full speed ahead when the power is plugged in ...

 SH> Otherwise, the only real modification I needed to run Fedora was to
 SH> install eee-control, which gives me a tray item to turn on and off
 SH> wireless, Bluetooth (which I don't currently have anyway), Camera, and
 SH> Card Reader.  I have found that quite useful for turning off the
 SH> network when I don't have a signal so that I don't waste power running
 SH> that. With my extended battery (1024 mAH), I can go for quite a while
 SH> before I need to find a power outlet.  Oh, and I did add ",noatime" to
 SH> the /etc/fstab entries for /, /usr/share, /boot, and /home partitions
 SH> and added "vm.swappiness = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf per the advice I
 SH> found in my searching on installing Fedora to the EeePC.

I quite like eeepc, and if I keep on finding it a pleasure, I am going to go 
for an extended battery, as I get about 3 hours on the standard battery ...

Must still get a 16gig. SD Card for it, that will give me enough room to store 
data, i.e. things like a FidoNet msgbase on the SD Card, I am not comfortable 
with USB sticks being plugged in, for long periods of time, the thought behind 
this being, that it is all too easy to break the plastic "bit" in the middle 
of the USB plug, and then it is no longer usable ...

 SH> I should mention that my EeePC is an EeePC 900 with the Celeron
 SH> processor, not one of the ones with the Atom processor.

Mine is a EeePc 700 with a 2Gig SSD and 512M RAM ... , also with a Celeron M 
processor ...

Have saved this post as it has a number of points to ponder ...

Thanks,

Russell

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