[Watford] Watford Digest, Vol 108, Issue 1

Tue Sep 30 13:07:34 UTC 2008

Hi Alain

 - I recommend the USB CD driver option if you have no joy with the
USB key. I have a asus eee too (the weedy 700 version). I installed an
8Gb SD card and then installed eeeUbuntu - a distro customized for the
eee and its tiny screen. Works like a charm - The point is I installed
this from an old portable CD drive I have lying around. The eee forum
has various tutorials on preparing flash drives for booting... I
looked but didn't have the patience.

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

On another note.. I have been messing about with the Linksys NSLU2 -
it's an open embedded network drive adapter that is joyously hackable.
I used mine as an iTunes server, film server and uPnP server for my
media streamer. It uses a trickle of electricity in comparison to my
main Linux box and is totally silent.

I'm enjoying the one I got so much I have bought a second one. There
is a mod you can do to it (taking out a resistor) to de-underclock it.
It is sold generally at 133Mhz by 266Mhz is available with some simple
but delicate surgery. This one I think I will use as a little LAMP
project server.

Here's a page with the alternate firmwares: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/

I'm using uNSLUng but you can get a Debian set up if you are patient/insane.

If I can hitch a lift then I'd love to join you all again for the next meeting .

Regards,

Toby

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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:32:36 +0100
> From: Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
> Subject: [Watford] Help - bricked eeepc
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> I bricked my asus eeepc ... trying to do an 'apt-get upgrade' or something.
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> It now falls over when starting the window manager & reboots.
> I have followed instructions below for getting it to boot of memory stick, no joy.
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>        http://darkertechnologies.com/notes/2008/01/26/booting-an-isolinux-livecd-from-eee-pcs-sd-card-reader/
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> I'll bring it to the next meeting.
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:41:39 +0100
> From: "James Heaver" <james at heaver.org>
> Subject: Re: [Watford] Help - bricked eeepc
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> Aparently not all combinations of USB key and computer will work.
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> It may well be worth trying another usb key if you have one around.
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> James
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> 2008/9/29 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>:
> > I bricked my asus eeepc ... trying to do an 'apt-get upgrade' or something.
> >
> > It now falls over when starting the window manager & reboots.
> > I have followed instructions below for getting it to boot of memory stick, no joy.
> >
> >        http://darkertechnologies.com/notes/2008/01/26/booting-an-isolinux-livecd-from-eee-pcs-sd-card-reader/
> >
> > I'll bring it to the next meeting.
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:55:26 +0100
> From: Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Watford] Help - bricked eeepc
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> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:41:39PM +0100, James Heaver wrote:
> > Aparently not all combinations of USB key and computer will work.
> >
> > It may well be worth trying another usb key if you have one around.
>
> Drat! it was an 8GB one that I bought just for this purpose ... my other one
> being far too small. Hmmmmm: I might try one of the small rescue CDs,
> if I can get a shell prompt I may be able to fix it.
>
> --
> Alain Williams
> Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
> +44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/
> Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php
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> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:45:10 +0100
> From: "Steven Acreman" <sacreman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Watford] Help - bricked eeepc
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> I have a USB cd drive that works. You are welcome to drop by my work and
> borrow it if you need to reapply the image.
>
> 2008/9/29 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
>
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:41:39PM +0100, James Heaver wrote:
> > > Aparently not all combinations of USB key and computer will work.
> > >
> > > It may well be worth trying another usb key if you have one around.
> >
> > Drat! it was an 8GB one that I bought just for this purpose ... my other
> > one
> > being far too small. Hmmmmm: I might try one of the small rescue CDs,
> > if I can get a shell prompt I may be able to fix it.
> >
> > --
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