Cool,
I found out about this subnotebook some days ago and already planned to buy it when it's released in Germany this December (the first affordable sub notebook...).
I think the main method to install a new operating system is to use a bootable USB stick - I didn't read anything about the possibility to boot from an attached CD/DVD drive, so we would have to transfer the eCS boot floppies to a bootable USB stick and include USB CD/DVD drivers. If that's possible then why not transfer the entire eCS boot CD to USB flash? Unfortunately as far as I know, you cannot just "copy" an arbitrary bootable CD ISO.
I think that resource might be interesting: http://os4you.org/wiki-usb-boot-en.html
It's a bit risky. Maybe it won't work that way.
greetings,
Robin
The manual that comes with it shows how to install WinXP from an USB drive. If one can install eCS using an USB drive, it should be able to install eCS onto it.
I read somewhere that someone said that a USB install would not work because of how the eCS/ OS/2 routine switches the USB driver control during the install process or something. I dont recall exactly what was said, but I was left with the impression that a USB install is impossible, the only other way being NetBUI install or imaging the files to the disk and using a command line to start the install.
QuoteThe manual that comes with it shows how to install WinXP from an USB drive. If one can install eCS using an USB drive, it should be able to install eCS onto it.
I don't think installing eCS this way will be as easy as installing Windows. See, you cannot write the *raw* contents of a CD (i.e. a boot CD used to install an operating system) to an USB stick because CDs have special filesystems. As far as I know, creating an USB stick with a Windows Installer involves creating a FAT or NTFS partition at the stick, making it bootable and then copying all the files from a Windows CD to the stick. What exactly does your manual say about that?
As I said, it should be possible to install it that way but it's not very straight forward and it may be tricky.
A method - however - which will almost certainly work (as the OS X installing article pointed out) is to use an external USB CD/DVD drive, changing your boot sequence so "USB" is at the top and then simply booting your eCS CD. That should be pretty easy. I think for that purpose I'm going to buy a cheap CD/DVD drive mobile rack and attach one of my old drives to it - I won't really need a real portable CD/DVD drive for that computer. Too bad I cannot use the PCMCIA/PCCARD CD drive I've already got
greetings,
Robin
So concievably, OS/2 could be installed/booted from an image on a flash drive onto the eeePC?
http://forum.eeeusers.com (http://forum.eeeusers.com) Here is a forum for users of the EEE PC. I asked them to add an 'other' section for those interested in using eCS on the EEE PC. 8)
Could one use an USB thumb drive (not optical but SSD) to install eCS from? ??? Could one copy the install cd to the USB drive? ???
Documentation of How To install eCS 2.0 RC4 to an SD card and boot the ASUS EeePC is now finished attached to this thread and will be uploaded to Hobbes in both German and English versions.
The system is running well, but only in VGA and without audio or network support at present. Still some work to do in that area.
Cheers/2
Ed.
I sent it back. It returned today. It has a new serial number. I assume they replaced it. It was the main board. Once I know that it works, I will - eventually - try to install eCS. 8)