Re: How to update an EeePC?

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,

I have an EEEpc 900 and altrady updated from F10 to F11 and to F12. All times, including the first instalation, I used LivreUSBCreator to get a live Fedora image on an SD card. Then I entered BIOS to boot from SD card and used "install to local hd" from the live media.

I partitioned the insternal flash / ssd to have a separate /home partition, so I can allways resintall Fedora fresh.

I also used this system a lot from SD card with live media and differente distros without problems.

[]s, Fernando Lozano
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Timothy Murphy 
> To: [e-mail]
> Sent: Dom, Out 17, 2010, 20:49 PM
> Subject: How to update an EeePC?
>
> I have an EeePC (4G 701) with 500kB RAM and a 4GB hard disk.
> It's currently running Fedora-10/KDE .
> (I haven't used the computer for a couple of years.)
>
> I have been trying to update it to Fedora-13.
> I tried installing LiveXFCE on a USB stick,
> but this hung when it was looking at or for Storage Devices
> (soon after it had asked for the su password).
>
> I also tried with pxeboot/cobbler ,
> but this also hung .
>
> I don't have a CD reader for the machine.
> I've installed an 8GB SD card,
> on which I've created two 4GB partitions.
> But this doesn't seem very reliable;
> sometimes it is recognised as /dev/sdb ,
> but other times it is not seen by fdisk .
>
> I'll try a couple of other ways of installing F-13,
> installing from the Fedora DVD ISO on the SD card,
> and maybe updating to F-11 and thence to F-13.
>
> But I wondered if anyone has advice on this,
> particularly anyone who has installed F-13 on such a machine?
>
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: [phone]
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>
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