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eeePC S101

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roberts:
I snagged an eeePC S101 on the cheap. 6 months ago these were going for 699.00.
geeks.com occonsaily gets refurbished/open box and sells them for 279.00
Typical Atom 1.6Ghz 1MB ram and 16GB SSD and a 16GB micro SD card 10.2" screen.

The units sold in US only came with WindowsXP. So Tiny Core to the resuce!
Using a pendrive that I had previously made with Tiny Core usbinstall script,
I booted the S101 from pendrive. Open a root shell to see what the SSD look like.
The 16GB SSD is seen as sda1 and the booted from pendrive as sdb1.

Using fdisk, I removed all the parttions on the SSD. Bye Bye Windows!
I made one large linux partition and reboot to the pendrive.

Then I used the usbinstall script to install Tiny Core onto sda1.
I used the ext2 type install. Shutdown, removed pendrive and rebooted
Tiny Core on S101!

The boot configuration file is now at:
/mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

I used the command uuid to get the UUID of the micro sd card which was not sdb1, which I wanted
to use for home and opt.

--- Code: ---uuid /dev/sdb1

--- End code ---
Then edited extlinx.conf to look like:

--- Code: ---DEFAULT tinycore
LABEL tinycore
KERNEL /tce/bzImage
APPEND initrd=/tce/tinycore.gz quiet nodhcp waitusb=5 tce=UUID="1c6e41df-b1c3-4054-801f-5fe6f4280dc6" home=UUID="aeb3a3a8-1eae-434c-be2a-8c2e0bc72c4e" opt=UUID="aeb3a3a8-1eae-434c-be2a-8c2e0bc72c4e"

--- End code ---
I used the pendrive to grab the following support extensions and copy them to /mnt/sda1/tce

1. 915resolution.tcz
2. wireless-2.6.29-1-tinycore.tczm
3. wireless_tools.tczl

I copied these into /mnt/sda1/tce directory

Next I edited /opt/bootlocal.sh

--- Code: ---iwconfig wlan0 essid "ETPHONEHOME" key DFDFDFDFDF
udhcpc -i wlan0

--- End code ---
Shutdown. Once powered back on I had proper resolution and working wireless.

Next from S101 I grabbed the usual OSS for sound. Opera and getFlash10
Sound works, flash10 works and Opera youtube video and sound all good.

OldAdamUser2:
Thanks mentioning 915resolution.tce. I had previously installed the big boy (xorg). It's nice to trim some fat from the setup.

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