I've got a 1005HA that came with XP. It has the 160G HDD and seems to work fine. I've been trying to install Slack 13 as a dual boot setup, but with no luck. Seems to be some sort of stall problem. I'll elaborate.

My 1st try was using an 8G flash drive as set up according to the wooush.com website. I used all the alienbob scripts and apps as instructed. Seems to have set up my flash drive ok, as it boots and I even went in and partitioned and formated the 2nd half of the 160G HDD w/ no prob. The install seems to be going along just fine until I try and return to setup program and continue, at which time the setup program keeps sending me back to choose source, choose target, install pkgs. Nothing occurs when I pick any of these choices.

My 2nd try abandons the flash drive. I bought a LiteOn DVD/CD burner/reader. I try and burn a Slack 13 DVD with no luck. K3b gets to 99% and stalls (unrelated prob on desktop box-disregard). OK, lets try my 3 CDs.
First two and all is rosey. I choose a full install and it all looks good, even into the 3rd CD /w KDE. When it comes to "wait for fc-cache" part of install, the setup stalls out completely..... nada, zip, zero. I'm dead in the water, again!

This is getting old. This eee box looks no different than any other XP dual boot I've done, but it just doesn't seem to want to go to completion. I get to a step and the setup stalls out. Since this stall prob has occurred with both a key and a media drive and known good CDs, I suspect the eee, but.... I looked in the BIOS, but see nothing that addresses any kind of pwr saving or sleep option. Anyone have any ideas on what's happening here? I can find nothing, so far.

nb --really frustrated

I have the same computer, and everything is alright here. I installed using a flash drive and all was smooth. You say "known good CDs", so did you actually check the md5sums? If they are OK maybe there is a problem with the harddisk or RAM? I know that these are very unlikely but otherwise I'm out of ideas, since the same hardware works here without any problems.

I've done everything according to instructions. I'm not a newb, though I'm starting to feel like one!

Like I said, it all works jes fine until it doesn't. I'm currently trying the 3 CDs install from new AC/pwr driven (not dual USB pwr) DVD/CD drive. Install of pkgs is moving right along. Last time, the setup(install) stalled at the fc-cache phase. I know this part takes a long time, but 40 mins!? I don't think so.

I'm wondering how much the "close the unit".... IOW, "fold screen down", has to do with it. With XP, that goes into some sort of sleep mode. I thought with linux, it would not go into sleep. Does it??

I'm now doing install with no "fold down". I'm into 2nd inwtall disc.

nb

When running from a Live CD, I've known Eee PCs to have some pretty unpredictable results when you close them. Keep it open and plenty cool.

i manage to install slackware13 and everything.. however; my touch pad doesn't work good; i mean..

double/triple finger tab (left/middle/right click) are not been recognized.

any pointers to the good directions?

I have Slackware13 as well as XP, Ubuntu and Kubuntu netbook versions on a Toshiba NB100 netbook. The most reliable install method for me has been to use a usb hdd as the source system -with unetbootin or alien bobs usb script for slackware. I have tried using large usb sticks for the whole source - but found them temperamental.

Archlinux has excellent wiki pages for eeepc models, are you using the 1000HA?

Since I can't post the link for my first post, just google "archlinux 1005HA" or whatever model you have.

They have pages for a few others, I'm not sure about the newest ones though.