On 8/3/08, John Layt wrote:

On Sunday 03 August 2008, Neil wrote:

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Hello

First some background: I was trying to get Suse on my EeePC a while back, but crashed as the CD I used didn't have Make, so I couldn't install the Madwifidrivers and so I couldn't get the network active and thus couldn't install make....(see this thread: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-07/msg00537.html) The following site was suggested: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_EeePC . I tried the first version since it promises to boot without an USB stick and that is exactly what I want. I tried it and had the following problem: When booting from USB the Eee posts "GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB" and so forth on the screen (just like 10 echo "GRUB" 20 goto 10" would do).

Does annywone have an idea what this could possibly mean?

Thanks for your time

Neil

Hi Neil,

Can't help you with the GRUB error, but just to confirm that I do have openSuse 11.0 installed on my eee using the bootable USB stick method and appelonkel repos, no compiling needed. Works smooth as.

John.

Hi John In that case I have some questions: Did you use the CD or the DVD? Did you heve a working internet connection when installing? Did you install the Madwifi drivers manually? What is your paritioning? Can you boot without an external USB stick? What are the Appelonkel repros? Could you please try a command like "make TEST" in console (only works as root) to test wether make is working? (there must be better ways, but I do not know them) Thanks Neil

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On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Neil wrote:

Hi John

In that case I have some questions: Did you use the CD or the DVD? Did you heve a working internet connection when installing? Did you install the Madwifi drivers manually? What is your paritioning? Can you boot without an external USB stick? What are the Appelonkel repros?

Could you please try a command like "make TEST" in console (only works as root) to test wether make is working? (there must be better ways, but I do not know them)

Thanks

Neil

Hi Neil, I basically followed the 'Installation from two USB drives' method described at http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_EeePC to install openSuse 11.0 to the SSD without Xandros, but with my own twist in the method. I've used both the DVD and CD install media to do installs based on the size of the USB stick I had to hand, but my current eee install was done off the DVD as I needed to install wvdial which (from memory) isn't on the CD. It's also better to use the DVD as it has all the devel stuff on it such as make and gcc and kernel source you don't get from the CD if you need it (which you don't), or if you want XFCE instead of KDE/Gnome. I followed the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/SuSE_install_from_USB_drive to create the bootable USB stick, then did the full install. For the drivers, I'm lucky in having a mobile internet dongle, so was able to connect directly to the net using wvdial and added the Appleonkel repo at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/appleonkel:/EEE/openSUSE_11.... into Yast to grab the required drivers. What you will need to do is have these already downloaded on a second USB memory stick or SD card so you can manually install them from the command line using 'rpm -Uvh'. You don't need to install all the packages, as half of them are for kernels you don't have like pae and xen or are debug packages, just grab all the 'kmp-default' ones, the 'eeeEvents' one and 'madwifi-ng' one. You can skip the section Improvements as the Appelonkel packages takes care of most of that for you. One caveat, having a mobile internet dogle means I haven't actually physically connected to a network using Ethernet or Wifi, but the system reports them as there and sees wireless networks, so I assume it works OK. I also haven't tried suspend as yet, so can't vouch for that. One gotcha to watch for when booting after install is it waits forever while trying to find a network, just ctrl-c for force it to skip that. Once the drivers are installed it no longer does that. For partitioning, I used to have an 8Gb SD card that I used as 2Gb swap (I have 2Gb RAM) and 6Gb home, with all 4Gb of the SSD used for root. However, because the SD card doesn't work under openSuse, I'm currently running with just the 4Gb SSD as / with no swap. No, no usb key dangling off the side when booting, but then I'm running openSuse from off the SSD. Hope that helps you. John. P.S. My eee 901 20Gb supposedly ships Friday, so I'll be repeating the process next week and will update with any issues I find :-) Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org