[Chester LUG] eeepc woes again

[Michael Crilly]

Try removing stuff with Synaptic, and not the GUI to apt-get.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Ha HA!
>
> Problem solved.  Got seriously fed up waiting for replies from about a half
> dozen forums over help with this one, so I decided that maybe the problem
> with the eeePC and Hardy would be easier to fix.
>
> Now eeePC has XP on the 2g ssd and Hardy on the 4g Class 6 SDHC.
>
> Does anyone know a quick way to remove all the crap that gets bundled with
> Ubuntu that I don't need.  Some suff can't be removed with Add-remove progs
> and I'm reluctant to do it with the package manager in case something I need
> gets removed by accident.
>
> I'm looking to keep full functionality, but remove additional extras like
> ooo database and display software while keeping the spreadsheet and word
> processor.
>
> > From: r.downing at dl.ac.uk
> > To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] eeepc woes again
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:43 +0100
> >
>  > On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:15:31 Paul Williams wrote:
> > > Hi Guys, got feisty installed to the SD card of my eeepc (and XP on the
> > > ssd).
> > >
> > > Only issue is that I have no ethernet or wifi, so I can't tweek it
> much.
> > >
> > > any help?
> > >
> > > I want to fix the problem without installing another distro - had
> enough
> > > trouble getting one on in the first place.
> > >
> > Hmm interesting that ethernet doesn't work. That is meant to work
> perfectly
> > well. The wireless is easily fixed by recompiling drivers with a small
> patch
> > applied. There is even an automated script that will customise ubuntu for
>
> > eeepcs. These of course require that you have some way of getting said
> patch
> > or script onto the machine.......
> >
> >
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