Comments on: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Eee PC 901

By: Allie

Allie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:36:47 +0000

Keep these artlcies coming as they’ve opened many new doors for me.

By: Two easy ways to install Ubuntu 8.10 on an Eee PC - Liliputing

Two easy ways to install Ubuntu 8.10 on an Eee PC - Liliputing — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:39:11 +0000

[...] And I’m probably not the only one. While there are plenty of tutorials on the web that will walk you through the process of customizing Ubuntu 8.10, it’s much easier to find a custom distro that just works out of [...]

By: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Eee PC - Liliputing

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on an Eee PC - Liliputing — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:50:19 +0000

[...] Getting the audio, WiFi, Bluetooth, and webcam to work is another story. Fortunately Tombuntu has posted a handy tutorial for getting the latest version of Ubuntu Linux to work on an Eee PC 901. The instructions should [...]

By: Donty

Donty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:01:48 +0000

Try the Jaunty Ubuntu Netbook Remix – boots live and installs from an SD card image and runs great on my 1000 and 901.

Very simple to install, it makes best use of the screen real estate and provides all the usual Ubuntu bits. Only thing I found was the sound volume, it is too low. All you need to do is turn up the line output slider as well as the master volume.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:06:08 +0000

Phew! Jaunty saved the day. Worked ‘out of the box’ including Skype and wireless. It has really brought the 901 to life. Now I have some time and a platform to use to increase my nerd levels and start working out how to use it properly.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:23:40 +0000

Didn’t work for me. Every time, the installation is nearly complete then spits it out saying there isn’t enough space. I am installing off DVD though which apparently makes some difference. Two frustrating days wasted. I guess I am not nerdy enough for Linux.

By: Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Eee PC 901 | Tombuntu

Installing Ubuntu 9.04 on the Eee PC 901 | Tombuntu — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:00:32 +0000

[...] ships with Asus’ own Linux distribution. Since I bought mine, I’ve installed and used Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04. The new Ubuntu 9.04 finally has full support for the Eee PC [...]

By: victor

victor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:05:49 +0000

wifi on my eee pc 901 not working after installing ubuntu 8.10 Any Ideas????

By: Dave Spillett

Dave Spillett — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:36:59 +0000

Regarding the storage being two drives (4Gb primary and the rest in the secondary), you could try use LVM to effectively merge the two drives together. Apparently Ubuntu doesn’t support this at install time by default but http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-over-lvm-filesystem has instructions. I’ve not tried this as I do not yet own an Eee (researching the options is what led me to this page) but my plan would be:
* 128Mb of sda as sda1 for /boot
* the rest of sda as sda2 marked for LVM
* all of sdb (as-is or a single partition at sdb1) for LVM
* create a volume group including sda2 and sdb1
* create logical volumes within the volume group as needed
(you don’t need to split things further if you do not want to – you could have / as a single logical volume taking the whole of the group so you would have a single root filesystem of ~19.8Gb, a small /boot and nothing else).

By: drdarkeny

drdarkeny — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:02:55 +0000

Tom, just a quick FYI for everybody having problems w/the WiFi after installinghowever many system updates Ubuntu insists on after installing the array.org EEE PC Kernel (from array.org’s EEE PC Ubuntu installation instructions – thanks to roytanck.com for the pointer!):

“# Reboot.
# During GRUB’s initialization, press ESC to open the boot options menu.
The new kernel is either labelled “2.6.27-8-eeepc” or “2.6.27-8-eeepc-lean”
If it is not at the top of the boot list, scroll down to it and hit enter.”