Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Melville
Adrian Fisher wrote:- I don't really like the interface that comes with it but that is not the reason I bought it. I bought it with the intention of wiping it and putting my own system on there. After you have it successfully dual-booting Xandros/LFS you can wipe the Xandros partition.

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-15 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Richard Melville richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote: Adrian Fisher wrote:- I don't really like the interface that comes with it but that is not the reason I bought it.  I bought it with the intention of wiping it and putting my own system on there. After

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 13/09/09 17:26, Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello all, I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of installing software manually,

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Melville
Adrian Fisher wrote:- I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of installing software manually, other than the few packages

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Adrian Fisher
I noticed the wget package which is something I suppose :P I plan to wipe the entire drive so I will have the full 40GB to play with (I believe it is split over 2 drives, 8GB and 32GB which should be fine). I don't really like the interface that comes with it but that is not the reason I bought

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/14 Adrian Fisher adr...@leofcwen.com: I noticed the wget package which is something I suppose :P  I plan to wipe the entire drive so I will have the full 40GB to play with (I believe it is split over 2 drives, 8GB and 32GB which should be fine). I don't really like the interface that

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Adrian Fisher wrote: I noticed the wget package which is something I suppose :P I plan to wipe the entire drive so I will have the full 40GB to play with (I believe it is split over 2 drives, 8GB and 32GB which should be fine). I don't really like the interface that comes with it but that is

Re: Asus EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Support
Mike McCarty wrote: Adrian Fisher wrote: I noticed the wget package which is something I suppose :P I plan to wipe the entire drive so I will have the full 40GB to play with (I believe it is split over 2 drives, 8GB and 32GB which should be fine). I don't really like the interface that

ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread Adrian Fisher
Hello all, I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of installing software manually, other than the few packages Asus saw fit to

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 9/13/2009 12:26 PM, Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello all, I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of installing software

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread Dan Corda
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-create-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-windows-vista/ On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Adrian Fisher adr...@leofcwen.com wrote: Hello all, This website contains several methods https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick another method

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread Dan McGhee
Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello all, I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of installing software manually, other than the few

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread dennisjperkins
...@grm.net To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:37:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello all, I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no CD/DVD drive and I

Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-13 Thread Adrian Fisher
into the Eee and boot from it. - Original Message - From: Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net To: LFS Support List lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:37:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop Adrian Fisher wrote: Hello all