On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Tabitha Roder <tabi...@hrdnz.com> wrote: > Copy of my blog post on the experience of installing Sugar on Asus Eee 701 > > Sugar on the Eee > > I wanted to put Sugar on an Asus Eee 701 for my niece. Thanks to Trademe I > could pick one up at a reasonable price. For those that know me well, yes I > had some help with setting up Sugar and yes I had some help with writing > this post. > > SOAS Strawberry runs well on the Eee, but you can't really install it. There > are various guides, which basically consist of >
First, the most interesting and handy thing about a netbook, is the ease of booting off removeable media. Many of my friends use SD cards to try out different OS. That said, you can do a full install from SOAS using the zyx-liveinstaller. You can download it http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/zyx-liveinstaller/ and install it with rpm and then run it. It will install to any disk, either the built in SSD or a removable USB or SD card. This is just one option, of course. Dave > Install anaconda > Run liveinst > Fight with partitioning (hint, don't choose automatic, choose custom, delete > everything and make an ext3 partition) > Fix the resulting broken redhat installation with no graphical interface by > installing the entire KDE stack and messing with inittab (note, you'll need > a wired ethernet connection, or epic iwconfig fu) > Install sugar > > The first work around was just to dd the SOAS usb image directly onto the > Eee's drive. This was good, the Eee boots quickly and starts sugar by > default, however our USB image was only 1GB so we couldn't use the rest of > the disk, and the journal complained that it was full, even when it wasn't. > I think the journal problem was probably to do with the tricks the live > image performs to boot of read only media, since we did a byte-for-byte copy > of the live image, these are all still present when booting from the Eee's > drive. > > I'm told a future version of SOAS may support installation to the hard disk. > > The current solution is the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Sugar from alsroot's > PPA. I used the Karmic Koala Beta and updated to the latest packages. This > wasn't entirely plain sailing, Sugar's web browse activity didn't work until > I did apt-get build-dep python-hulahop, see this bug. This has made the Eee > a really nice platform, you can alt tab between Sugar and your other apps > but not the netbook remix menu thing, so you can't start new non-sugar apps > without quitting Sugar. The only real problem is the Eee 701's low res > screen - not all activities are designed to shrink this far, Scratch being > the most missed example as it is my nieces favourite. > > The things you do (or your helper does) to please a nine year old. Big > thanks to said helper for giving up about 10 hours more than I thought we > needed. > > Sharing the experience, I hope that this helps the developers see where the > issues were and that next time I try this (I have another Eee ready) that it > is easy to see improvements - I can wait a while ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com http://www.solutiongrove.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel