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lefsha

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Registered: 2009-07-28

Posts: 22

ASUS "Express gate" for Linux /boot partition

Hi there,

First let me introduce myself.
I'm a newbie on archlinux or even one level below, cause I don't have it installed
on my computer, cause it's still in pieces on the coach.
I came from Gentoo/Kubuntu and hope this version will work fine for me.

Now to the question.

Does anyone know how to use flash ram on a new ASUS motherboard for
a root or at least for a boot partition?

So far I could find on the net one can install a linux from windows xp or vista
on that flash and use it as an express system which is in original http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop

I could not get the information on how big this flash disk is, but people talk
about something like 512MB. There are some distributives around which
feel comfortable with such an amount of memory.

I don't have a hardware in my hands yet, so i'm curious whether anyone has tried it out already.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: ASUS "Express gate" for Linux /boot partition

Welcome to the forum, lefsha!

What's your exact problem ?

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jowilkin

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 243

Re: ASUS "Express gate" for Linux /boot partition

Welcome to the forum, lefsha!

What's your exact problem ?

Some Asus motherboards have a feature called Express Gate that allows an "instant on" type system.  See this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41vS3UcZdk. 

I think the OP wants to know if he can run Arch on the memory on the motherboard used for Express Gate.

I have an Asus board with this feature and would be interested to know if this would work, but I haven't even tried to use Express Gate yet so I would have no idea how to go about making it work.

Diaz

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 366

Re: ASUS "Express gate" for Linux /boot partition

I haven't really had the time yet to search about something like what you wnat to do, but really interesting, because i also won a express gate enabled motherboard

I was looking at the support page looking for new bios firmwares and i saw that the express gate code was released there.. I just hadn't the time to really dwnload it, because i really would want to use the OSD that they have for the acpi keys