Making space on an EeePC
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Nov 19 01:28:25 UTC 2010
On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest
> smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
>
I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD drive.
First you can't do a graphics install on this with F14, as it is really
only 503Mb memory (Video is stealing that 8+Mb). So I either upgrade
the memory (working on that) or do a text install and then install gnome
later.
Then 4Gb disk just does not cut it. So I have a 8Gb SD card and I
partition as follows:
On the SSD drive:
A 200Mb ext3 /boot partition (for this system, I can't see any value of
using ext4).
A 1.5Gb swap partition.
A ~2.2Gb ext3 /var/log partition (your most active system directory).
On the SD card:
An 8Gb LVM partition with a max sized / ext3 partition.
Build a local f14 update repo and during the install point to it so
after the install, you don't have to go and update everything you
installed! Do it once.
Also I have a local F14 base repo and I boot of CD 1 with the askmethod
option so I can point to the local repo and install over the nextwork
faster than reading from the USB CD drive.
Hope this helps. I first had F12 on my Eeee, and recently moved ot
F13. F14 is waiting for the memory boost.
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