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Old 04-08-2009, 12:25 AM   #1
jettwa2001
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Question Asus Eee PC 1000 Netinstall Issue


Hello everyone,

Really really need your help, I bought a new laptop ASUS eePC 1000HE running win xp home edition with an Atheros nic card, I'm trying to preform a Centos 5 Netinstall since I don't have a cd/dvd device and during the installation I need to load my nic card driver which I download from Atheros website http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
as you can see the extension of the file is ether tar.gz or gz

how ever under windows it's show that it will only open with an HTML not that I real care about it..... all I want to know is during the installation when I asked the question if I have an disk for the network drive so I click have disk and the brows for the file but nothing happened.

Please help ASAP

Thank you,

Manny
 
Old 04-08-2009, 09:20 AM   #2
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I doubt you will get a netinstall working with Atheros Wireless from any distro at this point.
Use the Wired NIC in the netbook for install, then look at what it will take to get wireless working.
Also good luck with getting Centos to work on a Netbook at all.. the Centos Kernel is too old imho to support that hardware in a netbook.
You should be installing the latest version of Fedora, Suse, Slackware, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.. imho.


Linux is not windows, and Windows does not do netinstalls.. so please don't say this works in Windows.
 
Old 04-08-2009, 06:55 PM   #3
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There are probably better choices.

If you google for this machine and linux, you will find a whole crew with recommendations and guides tor their favorite linux distro on this netbook.
 
Old 04-09-2009, 12:06 AM   #4
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Thank you guys, farslayer the only reasion I wanted ti install Sentos is because this is what we working on REd Hat at school and centos is the closes distro, and btw I was trying to do it with the regular nic not with the wireless.
I'm sure there is a way to make it work.
but thanks any way
 
Old 04-09-2009, 08:12 AM   #5
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Fedora is Redhat.. and is more up to date. you might say it's the testing ground for what goes into RHEL / CentOS

Just keep it in mind if your CentOS installl doesn't work out.

Best of luck !!.
 
Old 04-10-2009, 12:45 AM   #6
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Yep this is what I did and the Fedora is working just fine including my wireless.

Thanks a gain for the support.

and on a second note I left my win xp partition active how ever when I tried to boot from it I get the "ntldr is missing please press ctrl alt delete"

I check my grub.cong and I do see my win xp there and I add the line make active but it didn't real help, I search online a little bit and i found out that i can use a win xp boot disk and maybe run fix mbr or fix boot to ix this issue how ever you think it will damage my Linux partition?

manny
 
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fixmbr will overwrite the Linux boot loader, and make your system boot straight into windows again. This may be necessary to fix your current issue.
You would then need to use a live Linux distro to reinstall the Linux grub bootloader to the mbr.
After both those steps you may end up back where you started.



Alternately you could diagnose the problem by using the ntldr is missing troubleshoooting page and the ntldr boot CD to see if you can find what is actually causing the issue..
 
  


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