No. Do not buy the 2G. Basically nothing can be upgraded, short of whatever you put into the SD slot. I had a tough time getting space up here as it is, and I have a 4G. I put /home on my SD card and the rest of Linux on the SSD.
Aye if poss hang one for the 8g. I ordered one from China, only downer is the keyboard but that can be swapped out.
My friend is selling his white 4g , it's brand new. If anyone is interested I will get a price from him.
After understanding a little better how the file system in Linux works, I've managed to get DOSBox up and working. I tested two games - Tyrian 2000 and the Elder Scrolls: Arena. Arena ran like utter crap, but it does the same on my X2 4600+ desktop, so it's probably something in the settings. Tyrian had some slowdown during menus but it was smooth as silk during gameplay.
thats one of the reasons i left xandros and went to windows with the eeepc. I wanted to run the majority of my stuff from an external usb hdd, yea i could always extend linux to make it think the hdd was part of the default system, but i wanted something more plug and play, so i went to windows LOL time to see if any of stuff runs now LOL Ryan
Linux is pretty plug-and-play these days. I was running said DOS games from my external USB hard drive. So far it hasn't been very hard to learn how to use Linux to run things Windows used to, although admittedly I've only tried DOSBox and maybe one or two other programs. I'll probably toss Wine on my Eee PC sometime.
just put pendrivelinux on a 1gig stick i had....runs very well minus the wifi linuxmint....54% downloaded! http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/11/04/usb-pendrive-linux-install-from-windows/ Ryan
let me know how mint runs as thats prefered choice. Seem like I am going to thave to wait a bit for my 8gb unit so my get a 4gb unit to play and hack about with.
right, so i downloaded linuxmint lite edition, and followed the instructions at >>http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/10/31/usb-linux-mint-install-from-windows/ Boots and runs fine right off the usb drive, runs very nicely off of it, no wifi of course, and a few small glitches (reports the battery as damaged, as do all default ubuntu installs) Now mind you, this is basically just a live cd version, so installing stuff don't work, so what i may do is take the iso, burn it, and use it to install to an sd card and then apply the patches and what not Mint has got to be the best version of ubuntu yet!
I installed Linux Mint using a flash drive. I partitioned the SSD to use as the file system, and I partitioned "/home" on my SD card. I have a 4GB SD card, but I recommend at least an 8. I have plenty of space for documents and some games, but something like an 8GB or (especially) a 16GB SD card would make things exponentially better.
i think 16 gigs are still a little pricy, but i have an a-data 8 gb with open office, firefox, and another dozen apps running off of it, and my files and what not, still with 4 gigs free now that i've had time with it, the fact that i can boot almost anything off of an usb or sd card really opens up the abilities of this machine. Ryan
For the most part you're right, 16GB are too expensive. There is an A-Data 16GB available for $66 on Newegg, though, and I'll probably wind up buying that once I get some income. If only wired ethernet would work, I wouldn't have to drag my Xboxes between rooms anymore...
Just got EEE no1. A 4g unit which will be hacked to bits and will be my test bed for mods before I put them on a 8g. At which point the 4g will be passed to my mussus so she can break it.
Not to quote myself, but I'm still curious about the eeepc that Assembler said he might consider selling...
Well 2 touch screens have been ordered along with 2gb ram, some big sd cards, usb pendrive and some Kapton tape... let the fun begin..... Oh stay away from A-data cards a fair few are failing according to eeeuser.com boards.
Mine's still going strong almost 3 months after, and its being read/written to more than any other device i have... anyone here running either eeexubuntu or maybe even linux mint? I'm wanting to know of the install size of some eeepc distro's....i might dual boot in the future!
