13 Responses to “Tips on Installing Ubuntu 7.10 to the EeePC”

1. ccm on December 28th, 2007 1:03 am

   Could you do this for the OLPC XO also, please?

2. Rexbron on December 28th, 2007 9:51 am

   Great work, but have you heard of/looked at eeeXubuntu? The maintainer of that distro has packaged up all the ePC specific changes that Asus released. Perhaps it is worth trying to get that stuff into the archives.

3. Jesse Jarzynka on December 28th, 2007 11:03 am

   Have you seen the eeewiki on this?

   http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

4. Ubuntu Tutorials on December 28th, 2007 2:48 pm

   I have seen that, and I tried that one first but I realized I prefer the gnome desktop so my initial writeup is for that. Additions for Xubuntu would, I’m sure, be a very useful addition.

5. Adam on December 29th, 2007 12:05 pm

   This is great! Not just for the Eee (mine is in transit) but for making live USB drives and installing all kinds of distros without wasting CD-Rs. But I ran into 2 snags:

   1) Where is dosfslabel? It isn’t in dosfstools in Gutsy, and Ubuntu help says to use mlabel:
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive
   Not that it matters much, I just stuck with “CANON_DC”.
   2) That method it didn’t quite work to make a fat32 formatted SD card bootable, but following the error message I got from isotostick.sh did (sudo parted /dev/sdc, toggle 1 boot, quit, then re-run isotostick).

6. Tom Haddon on December 29th, 2007 3:53 pm

   Just saw this project on Launchpad:

   https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee

   Sounds like one way or the other, there could be some way to work together there.

7. darko on December 31st, 2007 7:42 am

   Keep up the good work.

8. Anne Archer on January 5th, 2008 4:43 pm

   Hi…Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts..what a nice Saturday

9. Jason on February 2nd, 2008 7:27 pm

   Great work - been looking for something like this!

10. David on March 15th, 2008 12:46 am

    Thanks for your tips! I just have successfully installed the stock ubuntu 7.10 to my 4G eeePC. Everything works as you described, including the wifi.

11. toto on May 25th, 2008 8:20 am

    I have a problem with the wifi after installing ubuntu 8.04 in my 4G eeePC

    what should I do now ?

    Thanks

12. Christer Edwards on May 25th, 2008 9:44 am

    @toto - because the wireless driver had to be manually built you’ll need to redo the madwifi steps after any kernel update. Simply re-run the “make && sudo make install” and it should start working again.

13. toto on May 25th, 2008 10:10 am

    can u inform me the way to re run?

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