On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 19:11, Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:

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Interesting.  I've done a lot of installs on various EEE models without problems.  A friend of mine had a 901 and installed openSUSE on it multiple times (he was experimenting a bit before committing his main machine) and he didn't have issues.. *except* the first USB stick he used caused him problems.

Oops - my solution turned out to be embarrassingly simple. Turned out that when I plugged the USB stick into a different usb port, on the other side my eee pc, everything worked as expected. It's a bit strange, because certainly all USB ports on that laptop work fine for reading that same USB stick, but not all of them will boot with it.  Don't necessarily understand why, but that's beside the point now: I learned that hardware problems on boot can come in interesting ways ;-)

Ha, you know... it's quite likely that my friend inadvertently stumbled on the same solution when he swapped to a different USB stick... plugging it into a different port on boot when he tried the new stick :-P Glad to see you solved it :-) openSUSE runs quite well on the EEE netbooks... just make sure you turn off any of the fancy animations (regardless of desktop you choose). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 19:11, Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:

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Interesting.  I've done a lot of installs on various EEE models without problems.  A friend of mine had a 901 and installed openSUSE on it multiple times (he was experimenting a bit before committing his main machine) and he didn't have issues.. *except* the first USB stick he used caused him problems.

Oops - my solution turned out to be embarrassingly simple. Turned out that when I plugged the USB stick into a different usb port, on the other side my eee pc, everything worked as expected. It's a bit strange, because certainly all USB ports on that laptop work fine for reading that same USB stick, but not all of them will boot with it.  Don't necessarily understand why, but that's beside the point now: I learned that hardware problems on boot can come in interesting ways ;-)

Ha, you know... it's quite likely that my friend inadvertently stumbled on the same solution when he swapped to a different USB stick... plugging it into a different port on boot when he tried the new stick :-P Glad to see you solved it :-) openSUSE runs quite well on the EEE netbooks... just make sure you turn off any of the fancy animations (regardless of desktop you choose). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org