New OS for Eee Pc

damo24

Can anyone suggest an alternative operating system for a 2G Surf Eee PC?.

I know there are a few out there that will work with it if I use an SD card but I would like a version that does not require a card.

Thanks in advance.

nomoneytoday

WindowsXP?

Taking out the non urgent stuff it will be 1.5-1.7gb in storage.

faevilangel

any linux based ones e.,g. debian / ubuntu, puppy, kubuntu

or hacked versions of xp (too make it smaller) its called TinyXP

fwor

Looking around, it looks like you'll struggle to fit any of the fully-blown distros on a 2Gb drive. For example the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix (version 9.04 of which was released yesterday) is designed for a 4Gb drive capacity, and Ubuntu Easy Peasy (what was Ubuntu EEE) seems to be based on the same remix. I also don't think even Xubuntu will fit.

However, DamnSmall or Puppy will probably both be ok, if you can live with a rather minimal user interface...

damo24

fwor wrote: »

Looking around, it looks like you'll struggle to fit any of the fully-blown distros on a 2Gb drive.

However, DamnSmall or Puppy will probably both be ok, if you can live with a rather minimal user interface...

Thanks for the advice, don't really want to pull out the money for an XP license and my research so far found that most alternative OS are for the 4Gb model. I'll give Puppy a try. Have experimented with DSL before and could not get away with it.

vodkandredbull

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL LINUX ON AN ASUS LAPTOP

Not unless you know what you are doing.

I installed it on my Asus laptop and the drivers for wireless do not work properly.

Essentially installing the linux driver is fairly simple if you follow the instrucitons on internet forums, but for some reason Linux turns the wirless OFF on boot. Linux then uses FN-F2 for something else so you can't use this key combo to turn it back on.

damo24

Thanks for the warning, it already runs the Xandros version specific to the Eee PC and the guides I've read so far suggest that Linux will be fine as long as the wireless is turned ON before beginning the installation of the new OS.

-TangleFoot-

For something with so little space, I'd suggest either CrunchEee or xPUD. The latter only occupies 50MB, but it is rather... basic.

patman99

vodkandredbull wrote: »

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL LINUX ON AN ASUS LAPTOP

Not unless you know what you are doing.

I installed it on my Asus laptop and the drivers for wireless do not work properly.

Essentially installing the linux driver is fairly simple if you follow the instrucitons on internet forums, but for some reason Linux turns the wirless OFF on boot. Linux then uses FN-F2 for something else so you can't use this key combo to turn it back on.

I put 'PCLinuxOS 2009' on my ASUS, got WiFi working in less than 1 minute.
Theres also a version of PCLOS specially for the Eee, its called 'EeepcLinuxOS'. Last time I looked, they had almost got the WiFi working, however, as it uses an 'Atheros' chipset for this, they will have fixed it by now as Atheros released Linux drivers for their chipsets recently.

johncolescarr

I've not got a netbook but I've heard easy peasy is good. Plenty of installation guides. Its based on ubuntu.

Marty_J

There's a version of Ubuntu for netbooks:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook