Eee PC os install advice

[Dave Hall]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:31 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Currently I have gutsy on both the internal 4gig drive and on a 16gig flash 
> drive. I'm looking at scrubbing gutsy from the internal and installing 
> something else as I mainly boot from the flash drive at the moment. I'm 
> guessing that will require some changes to my grub file on my part so the 
> flash drive wont throw up errors when gutsy ain't there on the 4gig drive? 
> Would I be better off scrubbing the lines relating to the internal drive and 
> installing on it and then just using the bios to switch between internal and 
> external boots? Would rather the dual boot facility. How much work would that 
> entail? I'm guessing likely not that hard just not used to this my end as of 
> yet

I installed eeexubuntu on my partner's eee pc.  It was the best solution
I could find.  She has since left it out in the rain and it aint working
so well atm.  I will leave that story for another day.

You can do the manual BIOS hack, or you can just leave /boot and MBR
intact on the SSD and just remove the entries for the SSD.  I personally
found using SSD for the OS and the SD card for /home and some other
mount points great - except when the thing went to sleep and woke up and
would allocate a new block device for the SD card.

Cheers

Dave

PS Cross posting probably isn't the best approach getting a good
response from people.