If you want to change the operating system of your EEE PC to a Red-Hat based enviorment, then it is the right time to do it. Eeedora is a live distribution of Fedora which is compatible with EEE PCs. The image file is 350MB. Eeedora works with any hardware at EEE PC(if we leave the webcam support and resume issues) . The main advantage of EEEdora is that you can install larger packages according to your convenience like GIMP, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.
Installing Eeedora
Step 1: Download the packages here http://eeedora.rmbsanalytics.com/
There are two types of installation images available at the website. You will use the first one if you want to use your flash drive as the live media. If you want to use CD, then choose the 2nd option.
Step 2: If you choose the CD-R procedure, then it would be simple. Burn the image and it is ready to use with EEE.
If you are using the flash-drive method, it would be little complex. You will have to use a desktop PC for the preparation of the Zip-disk. You may have a Windows system, Fedora Linux based system or a non-fedora linux based system. The preparation steps are different for the three cases. So let’s take them one by one.
For Windows system
Extract the zip files to any drive(say D:\eeedora).
Check the Drive letter of your thumb drive. We assume that it is G:.
Open the command prompt and type the following commands:
c:\>d:
d:\>cd eeedora
d:\eeedora\> syslinux -ma G:
d:\eeedora\> xcopy /s *.* f:\
It will take 5 to 10 minutes to copy the files. You will have to format the USB drive before using it, so be sure that you have formatted the drive or it will not work.
For Non-Fedora system:
You should format the drive with vfat first.
Type the following commands on console:-
# mkdir /media/disk1
# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk1
# gunzip XXX.zip -d /media/disk1
Where XXX is the name of zip file.
Fedora based systems
Format the disk.
download the iso image(remember this case is different)
Run the following command
# livecd-iso-to-disk XXX.iso /dev/sdb1
if you are getting problem with the command, you have to install the livecd-tools package.
Gain the root access by su and run
# yum install -y livecd-tools
Congratulations! Now you can run Eeedora with your EEE PC.
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Thanks for this valuable post. I love gimp.