9 replies to this topic

[meltingrobot]

I just read through this article that was on Digg.com

http://www.news.com/...9813113-39.html

I think it would be awesome if somebody spun a distro just for the eee-pc. I would be all for moving to a Redhat based distro on my eee. Hopefully, some enterprising group makes it happen.

[Logik]

why don't you give it a try.. the Fedora releases are usually pretty good though. The stock DVD image should work fine on the eee

[mkrishnan]

It would be nice. Major issues are still going to be the same as Ubuntu though -- fully implementing ACPI and a driver for the WiFi chipset.

[Lebbers]

I tried a netboot of Fedora 8 but the atl2 driver isn't included so that put a halt to things rather quickly. Also can't seem to find where they include the drvnet.img image with the new release.

I guess I'll have to burn a CD/DVD and try my luck that way.

[dalma]

I tried the full DVD image, but it hung when it was trying to load anaconda, I didnt have time to figure out why, so I just threw on Ubunutu.

[Lebbers]

I had to append:

floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 clocksource=acpi_pm

to the kernel arguments to keep anaconda from hanging.

[hperkins]

I am running Fedora 8 from a 4G USB flash drive. Installed it direct to the drive using the live cd.
Fedora does not have the atl2 driver for the ethernet adapter so I used ndiswrapper and the driver from the eee CD.

[McGrude]

I installed Fedora 8 from DVD onto an external USB hard disk drive this morning. It seems to work reasonably well, but like hperkins said the ethernet did not work. I'll try the ndiswrapper later.

[MacMonster]

I just pacthed the atl2 ethernet driver downloaded from Asus site in order to compile in Fedora 8.

My source: http://www.geocities...-driver_fc8.tgz

The compiled kernel module: http://www.geocities...blic/atl2.ko.gz

The kernel module was compiled for the original kernel (2.6.23.1-42) comes from FC8.

I am not professional in kernel module development, I just commented out some code and changed some function names in the source, the driver may not stable.

[tulsa_sr5]

OK, i'm trying out fedora, installing on an SD card with my eee from an external CD drive. The very first step is setting up partitions, and it only wants to do EXT3. Did you all find a way to use EXT2 or just living with the journaling FS?