Fedora/eeepc
 

Hi All, I just bought an eeepc 1001PX to play with. I have read a few people who have installed fedora on this PC. Does anyone have any feedback. As Fedora is my distro of choice it would be the logical choice but I always thought netbooks needed a specialised distro.

Guess you could take a look at Fewts Fuduntu

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I have Fedora 14 on my EEE 900ha. Everything worked out of the box, and performance is great!

Obviously each model has slightly different hardware, so I recommend trying a Live CD/USB first.

I've been running Fedora on my now-ancient Acer Aspire One (Atom N270) for over two years now. Although I prefer LXDE, I've had no problems running XFCE, GNOME, or KDE either.

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I have F14 install on a ee-1000 and ee-1000HA everything works.

thanks for the feedback so far folks. I have created a F14 USB boot drive and the PC boots fine from this.

Now I want to install to the HDD but I need to get a handle on the existing partitions. Windows 7 has 4 partitions created automatically during the install:

80GB Boot partition/C drive, I guess I don't touch that!
15GB Healthy (primary)
54GB primary partition/D drive
21MB partition (Healthy (EFI))

I don't need too much space for linux, can I delete the 3rd and 4th partitions (D drive and EFI partition) and add my linux partition in this space?

Investigation so far suggests that the EFI partition is not used and the D drive is empty. I am not really sure what the healthy 15GB is doing if anyone has a suggestion.

When I installed Fedora on my eee, I deleted the D: partition (using the Gparted partition editor) and then used the installer option to install Fedora in the free space.

Note: the partition will not be called D: in Linux, but rather /dev/sdaX where X is a number from 1 to 4. You'll want to double check the partition size to make sure you're deleting the correct partition. A backup of all important data to an external drive is recommended, just in case...

any ideas where to put the MBR? On the windows partition or the linux partition?

I would recommend /dev/sda (which I believe is the default for the Fedora installer, if I remember correctly).

Fedora does indeed default to installing the bootloader in the MBR (/dev/sda). This will overwrite the Windows bootloader, but grub will autodetect Windows and you'll be offered the option of booting Windows. I believe the Win7 bootloader can be configured to boot other OSs; if you want to go that route, install grub onto your Linux pertition (/dev/sdax for the appropriate value of x) and configure the Win7 bootloader to chainload grub.

that works fine, thanks for all the help. As noted above I used the 3rd partition (/dev/sda3). I just formatted the whole partition as ext4. The installer warned me that there was no /swap partition but when I tried to add a swap partition it complained about disk space. So I just stuck with the one partition.

I just followed the prompts for the bootloader. Rebooted the PC which comes up automatically with Fedora and allows you the option into windows if you hit the space bar.

I can't get the mic working on skype but that is for another forum.