FC9 for a ASUS Eee 700

[Jim]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> I jsuyt purchased a mildly used ASUS Eee 700 (something, seller was 
>>> not explicit) from ebay.
>>>
>>> Has a 4Gb SSD and 512Mb ram. Also an SD slot. It is coming with some 
>>> Linux (assume Ubuntu?), but want something I am more used to. I 
>>> would have gone with Centos, but could never get my SD slot on my HP 
>>> nc4010 working.
>>>
>>> So I figured I want a little stablity so I would go with FC9 (really 
>>> 9.5) and I should get enough to fit on that 4Gb drive (2Mb swap for 
>>> hibernation to swap). And I should be able to get virtual windowing 
>>> to work so I have a large enough desktop for most things I will be 
>>> doing.
>>>
>>> Is FC9 the way to go, or should I take the dive with FC10? What are 
>>> others running on their Eee?
>>>
>>>
>> I have a 700 with 8gb SSd and it's going to be tight to get anything 
>> on it .
>> I have FC10 and all hardware has drivers for it in FC10. Easy install.
>> I would suggest you allocate 3gb to / and 1gb to /home , to get a 
>> deceit install . 
> With only 4Gb, I was considering putting it all in one partition, and 
> not risk a miscalc. Then put most of my work on an SD card. Do larger 
> SD cards use more power? 8Gb are out, so I could have almost nothing 
> in /home, and put almost everything on the SD card.
>
>
Using SD cards, for something like that is all fully awkward, I would go 
ahead and try all on one partition first and see how you would like it, 
you really need a /home directory to properly function.