Comments on: Fedora 13 – btrfs and Asus eee issues http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-13-btrfs-and-asus-eee-issues/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless Fri, 10 May 2013 10:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thub http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/fedora-13-btrfs-and-asus-eee-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-10811 Thub Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:13:36 +0000 http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/?p=1165#comment-10811 My EeePC 701 was the 4GB version, so I managed to hobble along without any compression, but the screen was an issue. I used vnc to control Anaconda from another computer. (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html/sn-remoteaccess-installation.html)

A Kickstart file is probably your best/safest bet here, though I’m not sure whether you can request compression using this file. I’ve also heard of ways to use yum from a running system (ie. LiveCD/LiveUSB) to install a full system. It gets a little hairy here though, since you need a separate ext4 /boot partition.
I guess you could partition a small /boot partition as ext4 and the rest as btrfs, then (where /dev/sda is your SSD):

# mount -t btrfs -o compress /dev/sda2 /mnt/newroot
# mkdir /mnt/newroot/boot
# mount -t extfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/newroot/boot
# grub-install /dev/sda –root-directory=/mnt/newroot
# yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop Environment” –installroot=/mnt/newroot –enablerepo=fedora –enablerepo=updates

I’m mostly going from memory here, so feel free to do a little Googling. :-)

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