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Hi guys. I'm writing a small bash customization script to take care of all the little things that you have to do to a newly formated Eee. By now, I have adding extra repos, enabling the full desktop, installing some IceWM themes, removing the PC-tips and Chinese keyboard, installing full codec support, you get the ideea.
I'm thinking to make the script generally available, but I was wondering, what's the first thing you do on your Eee. Please let me know, and if I see something useful or something that a lot of people need I'll try to include it before release
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Project home
http://code.google.com/p/pimpmyeee/
Download to your user directory, open a terminal and run:
sh pimpmyeee.sh
For more detailed instructions
http://code.google.com/p/pimpmyeee/wiki/HowTo
Last edited by derred (2008-02-21 4:21:29 am)
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what's the first thing you do on your Eee
Most mornings, it's checking me email... 
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Neil wrote:
what's the first thing you do on your Eee
Most mornings, it's checking me email...
Lol, not quite what I had in mind but thanks for the quick reply 
I was wondering more along the lines of what do you install...
Last edited by derred (2008-01-30 3:50:00 am)
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You might want to set up a couple of one line scripts to easily turn the webcam on and off. The commands to do this are in the first post of this thread: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1386
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Great idea, I'll set up two executable scripts and move them to /bin
camon and camoff should do as names
Thanks Otter
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derred wrote:
Hi guys. I'm writing a small bash customization script to take care of all the little things that you have to do to a newly formated Eee. By now, I have adding extra repos, enabling the full desktop, installing some IceWM themes, removing the PC-tips and Chinese keyboard, installing full codec support, you get the ideea.
I'm thinking to make the script generally available, but I was wondering, what's the first thing you do on your Eee. Please let me know, and if I see something useful or something that a lot of people need I'll try to include it before release
Install rescue mode in /boot/grub/menu.lst as per this wiki article:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemode
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Neil wrote:
what's the first thing you do on your Eee
Most mornings, it's checking me email...
Ha. Usually the first thing I do is press the power button...
But one thing you might consider is to install the overclocking and fan speed modules.
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robin wrote:
Install rescue mode in /boot/grub/menu.lst as per this wiki article:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemode
I really didn't know that was an issue (never tried it) but you're right. Any linux system should have a rescue-mode or single user mode or whatyoumightcallit
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Here it is. Not finished but close to it. Just make sure to read it before you run it.
http://derred.freeweb7.com/Scripts/pimpmyeee.sh
to run just download to your user directory, opent a terminal and type:
sh pimpmyeee.sh
Last edited by derred (2008-01-30 5:06:56 am)
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Hi,
in my opinion the great advantage of the EEE is that you dont have a thing to do after starting it for the first time. i mean i could start "working" right away. the most important things were already on board.
i dont think that the average eee user wants to take the risk of adding extra repositories. however thats only my opinion
cheers, flo
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flomar wrote:
Hi,
in my opinion the great advantage of the EEE is that you dont have a thing to do after starting it for the first time. i mean i could start "working" right away. the most important things were already on board.
i dont think that the average eee user wants to take the risk of adding extra repositories. however thats only my opinion
cheers, flo
I mostly agree, and usually install very little if any software on my eee. BUT what if I want to open a quicktime movie? What if I need to edit a photo? There are things that a normal user has to do that aren't supported by the default repositories.
Also, if you look at the script you'll see that I've made almost every step optional so that you don't have to install the full desktop for example if you only need codecs.
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derred wrote:
robin wrote:
Install rescue mode in /boot/grub/menu.lst as per this wiki article:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemodeI really didn't know that was an issue (never tried it) but you're right. Any linux system should have a rescue-mode or single user mode or whatyoumightcallit
You won't be able to use a script running under the built in Xandros to do this, as by the time the script is run, /dev/sda1 (the system partition that you'd need to alter to get rescue mode up in) is mounted read only. Any changes you make to /boot/grub/menu.lst would look as if they'd been done, but actually you would have created a copy on /dev/sda2 which the bootloader will ignore. Ah, the joys of unionfs...
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I check my mail sitting on the throne, but maybe thats a little too much information!!!!
But seriously, I think you have it nailed. I do setup for uninvited VNC connections, thats handy.
Last edited by dnar (2008-01-30 5:38:07 am)
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Jon Bradbury wrote:
derred wrote:
robin wrote:
Install rescue mode in /boot/grub/menu.lst as per this wiki article:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemodeI really didn't know that was an issue (never tried it) but you're right. Any linux system should have a rescue-mode or single user mode or whatyoumightcallit
You won't be able to use a script running under the built in Xandros to do this, as by the time the script is run, /dev/sda1 (the system partition that you'd need to alter to get rescue mode up in) is mounted read only. Any changes you make to /boot/grub/menu.lst would look as if they'd been done, but actually you would have created a copy on /dev/sda2 which the bootloader will ignore. Ah, the joys of unionfs...
Thank you for saving me from hours of torment and pain. I've never used unionfs (except for knoppix livecds) so that would have come as a bit of a nasty shock.
The folks at asus didn't go for all out compatibility and standard compliance did they?
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No, they went for an innovative system that allows the target audience - that is, new users who are unfamiliar with Linux - to be able to easily restore the machine if (by tinkering wit the OS) they screw it up.
Personally I think this is a great way to make the product more stable.
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Jon Bradbury wrote:
You won't be able to use a script running under the built in Xandros to do this, as by the time the script is run, /dev/sda1 (the system partition that you'd need to alter to get rescue mode up in) is mounted read only. Any changes you make to /boot/grub/menu.lst would look as if they'd been done, but actually you would have created a copy on /dev/sda2 which the bootloader will ignore. Ah, the joys of unionfs...
Ahhh yes you are correct. You have to be in rescue mode to edit the menu.lst file and install the rescue mode menu item. Quite the conundrum.
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daveg wrote:
Now.. if newegg would just hurry shipping my eee!
You still have problems getting one? It seams strange since I'm in Romania and mine arrived in less than 24 hours.
Anyway I'm glad you liked the script. And the way that it's commented is because I figured that most Eee users are Linux noobs (and I mean that in a loving way since I am one) and a little bash knowhow never hurt anyone.
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I'm not with my eee but have downloaded the script just to read it. I notice your negative comments on the community repository but there are one or two programs that do install more easily from it, in particular, Basket.
I have asked this question elsewhere but got no response and maybe someone here can answer it for me. It seems to me that using your script and/or by following the wiki all the repositories in the sources.list file other than the community repository (deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch) are then pinned. Is there any reason why the community repository is not pinned? If there is not, what should be put into the preferences file to pin it appropriately?
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Hi there.. I just ran your script
I used enable all codec support
enable extra repos
install cool mac theme
They all seemed to work fine. Now I can't run easy mode.. I boot into advanced mode.. then select easy, then it reboots right back to advanced mode. ahh.. help.. I do like to hop in easy mode every now and again.. what can I do?!
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Just tried the script as an easy way to get Quicktime support, but o joy. It said it could not find the Mplayer package it was looking for....
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Man this is what linux newbies are looking for, CUDOs for working on this- im sure it will be the joy of many eeeuser 's to come~!
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I'm not at home so I can't test the script. But I jsut have a question, If I press a number does it automatically execute that option in the list?
or can I press the number then have to hit 'enter' for it to execute?
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@marf
You have to press enter after entereing the number.
I think it would be cool if this could download and install some of the Easy Mode icons from the wiki as well as SublimePorte's icon tools
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Niel1952 wrote:
I'm not with my eee but have downloaded the script just to read it. I notice your negative comments on the community repository but there are one or two programs that do install more easily from it, in particular, Basket.
I have asked this question elsewhere but got no response and maybe someone here can answer it for me. It seems to me that using your script and/or by following the wiki all the repositories in the sources.list file other than the community repository (deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch) are then pinned. Is there any reason why the community repository is not pinned? If there is not, what should be put into the preferences file to pin it appropriately?
Sorry for the late reply Niel. Well, the reason that I don't like the community repos is because they've messed up things (while trying to get audacity mostly) too many times for my taste. Maybe things have changed, maybe it's better now. Can't say, since I'm not willing to test them again just yet.
kingblind wrote:
Hi there.. I just ran your script
I used enable all codec support
enable extra repos
install cool mac theme
They all seemed to work fine. Now I can't run easy mode.. I boot into advanced mode.. then select easy, then it reboots right back to advanced mode. ahh.. help.. I do like to hop in easy mode every now and again.. what can I do?!
Did you do anything more than just run the script (what I mean is did running the script trash your system) I never tried running it from advanced mode. Open a file manager and delete the hidden folder .icewm (the themes are for easy mode)
Dragonhunter wrote:
Just tried the script as an easy way to get Quicktime support, but o joy. It said it could not find the Mplayer package it was looking for....
You have to enable the extra repos to install the mplayer package. You can disable them after you're done.
In other news I've managed to screw up my system completely (while trying to edit the system partition) and found myself having to format. So I did format, not realizing that freeeweb7.com lost all my files. So if anybody has a copy of the scripts I would really appreciate it if you would pm me. If anybody has an idea for free ftp host that's halfway decent also, pm me.
Thanks in advance.
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