Tag: eee
What's this all about?
by james on Jun.15, 2009, under Uncategorized
Well I’m mostly going to start by documenting my Asus EEE 900A here, but I will probably put some personal stuff too. Not to mention gentoo stuff and general hackery. Right now I’m unemployed so I have a lot of free time.
So, there is a ton of info out there about the Asus EEE line. My favorite related website is eeeuser.com started by someone called “ant”. I’ve been trolling that sight since I first heard about it which was before the line was released. There of course is a couple Ubuntu variations out there, but I’m not one for Ubuntu. What’s the plan for the 900A then? Well put Gentoo on it! I have been doing some research and it should be straight forward, but since the 900A has an Intel Atom I either have to do some trickery with gcc-4.4 or go all out with gcc-4.5.
So, what’s the overall plan?
* Setup a uclibc chroot environment on my 2.5″ external HDD that way I can use my Athlon 64 X2 5000+ to do the initial setup and updates, but then have the chroot environment available to the EEE simple by plugging in the HDD. This should work pretty well, but I’m worried about the kernel setup and I might do that native.
* Use some hints from Tiny Gentoo to get a “clean root” without all the cruft of gentoo, like portage, just have the stuff to run the programs I want to run. Use a 8GB SD card for the “clean root” and setup grub to boot to it instead of using the BIOS to select the boot device. Hopefully save myself some headaches with grub.conf
* Setup a dedicated “home” partition so that I don’t have to rsync or something silly like have multiple instances of config files and the like.
* Use LXDE cause it looks awesome and LXLauncher should look very similar to the “Basic” mode that comes with it.
* In general try to install the least amount of packages as humanly possible.
Planned hardware upgrades:
* 8GB SDHC card
* 2GB DDR2 800 SODIMM, yes I know you’re wondering if the bus speed is right.
Possible hardware upgrades:
* HP DV6000 webcam, the 900A doesn’t come with one and I’m pretty sure it compatible
* Touch screen interface, cause that would be awesome
* New SSD cause 4GB should cut it, but I could get a much faster SSD and have room for all my partitions without needing to use SDHC
* Do some internal mods cause the touch screen is going to add some internal USB ports
