EeePC 701 : Is pre-upgrade not optional??

[Beartooth]

I am old, physically exhausted and in lousy health. (Don't ask.) 
One of the topics I've been ignoring completely, in order to manage at 
least something, is pre-upgrade -- taking for granted that the way I know 
would still work, be the virtues of pre-upgrade what they may.

I bit-torrented F10 and burned it to a DVD. I want it ASAP for an 
EeePC 701, now running what was supposed to be F10 Beta (uname says 
F9.92.), and reported to solve the wireless problem. (It didn't. In fact, 
it is unable to connect, even by Ethernet cable to my router.)

My choices appear to be either to do a fresh install (which I 
presume might work), DBAN the 701 and then do a fresh install, mothball 
the machine, or install some less congenial OS.

Has anyone here tried any of these on a very early EeePC?

[Dario Nievas]

i have just finished installing F10 on a eeepc701 with 1GB of ram. As
for now, everything is working out of the box (I am writing this email
from the eeepc, logged in to my wireless router)
I am impressed.
I recommend you to give it a try, using the live usb function. Check
the installation guide for F10.
Hope this info helps. Let me know if you need more details

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Beartooth  wrote:
>    I am old, physically exhausted and in lousy health. (Don't ask.)
>
> One of the topics I've been ignoring completely, in order to manage at
> least something, is pre-upgrade -- taking for granted that the way I know
> would still work, be the virtues of pre-upgrade what they may.
>    I bit-torrented F10 and burned it to a DVD. I want it ASAP for an
>
> EeePC 701, now running what was supposed to be F10 Beta (uname says
> F9.92.), and reported to solve the wireless problem. (It didn't. In fact,
> it is unable to connect, even by Ethernet cable to my router.)
>    My choices appear to be either to do a fresh install (which I
>
> presume might work), DBAN the 701 and then do a fresh install, mothball
> the machine, or install some less congenial OS.
>    Has anyone here tried any of these on a very early EeePC?
>
> --
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[Beartooth]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:24:27 -0200, Dario Nievas wrote:
> i have just finished installing F10 on a eeepc701 with 1GB of ram. As
> for now, everything is working out of the box (I am writing this email
> from the eeepc, logged in to my wireless router) I am impressed.
> I recommend you to give it a try, using the live usb function. Check the
> installation guide for F10.
> Hope this info helps. Let me know if you need more details

I'm guessing that by USB you mean a geekstick or thumbstick; I 
don't have F10 on one (yet, anyway). So I decided first to try putting my 
F10 DVD into my external DVD drive, as before, but connecting its USB 
cable to one of my PCs. This time, when I tried telling anaconda first to 
upgrade, it went right on, and has now installed 760 of 1033 packages, or 
so it says.

I suspect that it helps to have a full sized monitor, which 
doesn't require me to do contortions with Alt & mouse to get to the Next 
button. Stay tuned.

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:03:59 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
    [...]
> I'm guessing that by USB you mean a geekstick or thumbstick; I
> don't have F10 on one (yet, anyway). So I decided first to try putting
> my F10 DVD into my external DVD drive, as before, but connecting its USB
> cable to one of my PCs. This time, when I tried telling anaconda first
> to upgrade, it went right on, and has now installed 760 of 1033
> packages, or so it says.
>
> I suspect that it helps to have a full sized monitor, which
> doesn't require me to do contortions with Alt & mouse to get to the Next
> button. Stay tuned.

It claimed to have completed, and told me to reboot, without ever 
ejecting the DVD, nor telling me to remove it.

I pushed the reboot button, and it did -- into install mode. I 
stopped that, took the DVD out, and tried again. It got as far as 
displaying

"GRUB _" in the upper left corner, and hung there.

I put the DVD back, called for rescue mode, and tried editing 
grub.conf, in very minor ways -- removing rhgb, and little or nothing 
else. Same result.

I tried again with the DVD, telling it to boot from local drive. 
This time if displayed

"Booting from local drive

GRUB _"

-- and hung again.

[Dario Nievas]

Could you try installing from a live usb? It worked like a charm for
me, and I'm sure it will also work for you
This link really really helped me.

http://jorge.ulver.no/2008/11/10/fedora-10-on-the-acer-aspire-one/

It has instructions to install F10 from a usb stick into an Acer One.
If you follow this guys instructions it will work for your 701 as
well. It's not necessary to perform the installation with LVM though,
you can skip that and install it on an old fashion ext2 partition
(Careful, the installer installs as ext3 anyway, so you have to do as
stated on this blog to turn it back to ext2, no big deal).

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Beartooth  wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:03:59 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>        [...]
> >   I'm guessing that by USB you mean a geekstick or thumbstick; I
> >
> > don't have F10 on one (yet, anyway). So I decided first to try putting
> > my F10 DVD into my external DVD drive, as before, but connecting its USB
> > cable to one of my PCs. This time, when I tried telling anaconda first
> > to upgrade, it went right on, and has now installed 760 of 1033
> > packages, or so it says.
> >   I suspect that it helps to have a full sized monitor, which
> >
> > doesn't require me to do contortions with Alt & mouse to get to the Next
> > button. Stay tuned.
>    It claimed to have completed, and told me to reboot, without ever
>
> ejecting the DVD, nor telling me to remove it.
>    I pushed the reboot button, and it did -- into install mode. I
>
> stopped that, took the DVD out, and tried again. It got as far as
> displaying
>
> "GRUB _" in the upper left corner, and hung there.
>    I put the DVD back, called for rescue mode, and tried editing
>
> grub.conf, in very minor ways -- removing rhgb, and little or nothing
> else. Same result.
>    I tried again with the DVD, telling it to boot from local drive.
>
> This time if displayed
>
> "Booting from local drive
>
> GRUB _"
>    -- and hung again.
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
>
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