May 1, 2008 @ 14:25
My eeexperience with Fedora 9
This is a short post regarding my experience installing and using Fedora 9 (currently preview, not released version).
I have tried installing eeedora on 8GB SD card for many times but without any success. I have successfully run eeedora from my usb stick but when I tried installing it on SD card it failed while trying to copy files from USB stick to SD card.
I have external DVD burner so I popped in Fedora 9 Preview. To my surprise, after bad experience with eeedora, installation went smooth. I had some issues with LVM crashing anaconda but after I manually created partitions with fdisk and rebooted Fedora 9 it was installed without any problems. After partitioning the only issues were the GUI ones - anaconda installer just doesn’t fit in such a small screen. I hope that can be fixed before Fedora 9 ships.
Here is how Fedora 9 boot screen looks like on Asus eee:
Fedora 9 wallpaper looks great on eee, much better than on my big 19″ screen. The issue here is that “Install fedora” icon is visible but the text beneath isn’t. If you don’t know exaclty what you are looking for it is hard to start the installation. Here is how Fedora 9 looks on my Asus eee:
Here is how Anaconda Installer looks like like on eee:
As you can see the buttons aren’t visible in Anaconda installer.
When I used “create default partition layout” with LVM this is the error I got:
I tried saving this bug but save button freezes Anaconda, so I couldn’t save the bug report.
These all are just small cosmetic bugs and I’m overly impressed how great Fedora 9 works on my little eee! I can’t wait to use it in my daily routine because Xandoros has lots of limitations compared to Fedora.
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Posted by austyn
May 1, 2008 @ 23:22
get a bigger screen
Posted by loupgaroublond
May 1, 2008 @ 23:53
Are you just using an ext2/ext3 filesystem or did you hack out the installer a bit to use something like JFFS or another flash oriented file system?
I have an EEE PC i want to have set up before LinuxTag for a friend. I’ll try to keep you posted if I figure out something better than your setup.
Posted by valent
May 2, 2008 @ 8:22
@austyn - I’m loolking to use Fedroa on native Asus eee hardware. I can easily connect it to a bigger external screen but you are missing the poing.
@loupgaroublond - I’m using Fedora 9 Preview, no hacking on my side. I tried to use LVM as that is what anaconda sets up by default (with ext3) but that didn’t work so I manually created partition and formated it through anaconda as ext3.
Posted by valent
May 2, 2008 @ 8:27
Here are the bug reports I reported:
Anaconda doesn’t fit on Asus eee (800×480) screen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444943
Boot screen looks strange on Asus eee:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444944
Posted by jeff moe
June 29, 2008 @ 23:34
Hey,
I have a number of scripts, docs, dumps, etc for the eee/linux with a heavy emphasis on free software. You may find them useful:
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/developers/jebba/eee/
ftp://ftp.blagblagblag.org/pub/BLAG/developers/jebba/eee/free_software/bin/
Have fun,
-Jeff