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[Rui Santos <rsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply Neil,

Some notes and questions are inline.

Neil wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently installing 11.0 on a 701 8GB (takes a darn long time
> because I haven't got much continous time) see the thread Suse on an
> Eeepc.
>   
That tread is about the 701 model, and so are the instructions on 
installing suse on eeepc on suse wiki.
The 901 is almost ( if not all ), from what I've read, different 
hardware. Have you seen any 901 installation ?
> The speed on the SSD seems to be 11 MB (can do a dd test tonight if
> you wish). I do not think they would insert a SLOWER ssd in the 901.
>
> The 4GB harddisk seems small to me. I have trouble fitting everything
> in 8GB and I use a 16GB usb for music and some documents. 4GB is the
> minimum I would recommend for the / partition.
>   
I do not know about your 701 model but, in 901 I believe that are now 
two SSD's, one with fast 4GB and another one, slower, with 16GB (linux 
version). From the reviews I've read, the primary 4GB is usually 
mentioned as FAST.
> The /home could be fitted on a SDHC disk, the 901 seems to support
> them (701 doesn't. It is insane but it doesn't) They are relatively
> cheap up to 8GB, even class 6 (Sandisk Extreme even provides a free
> cardreader, so you can backup your /home in any case) just do not boot
> without the card in it if you use it for /home.
> Sandisk Extreme II claims to have 20MB read and 20MB write, and costs
> €54 (8GB) in my favorite shop, a class 2 costs about half.
>
> The biggest problem I have to tackle is the Atheros Networking Cards.
> They should be fixable with the Madwifi drivers, but there are a lot
> of problems to tackle.
> If I haven't solved it I will try to use the ndiswrapper technique to
> get it working (not sure yet if this is difficult)
>   
Still on the 701, right ?
> I love my EeePC, just didn't like the version of Xandros on it. Ideal
> to start with but they tried to kick out all configurability, and
> messing with these things is something I love (unless my data gets in
> danger).
>
>
> Neil
>   
Once again, thank your for you input on the subject,
Rui


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