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#1 2009-12-10 17:41:35

phoenix89
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Registered: 2009-08-07
Posts: 24

ARCH on EEE 1005HA

I know I have seen forums or pages were people have installed Archlinux on the netbooks. 

I have been running into numerous problems just trying to get my Netbook to boot off of the USB, some reason I always get an error that some how leads to saying ramfs$ and wants me to try and fix the error.  I have even tried hooking up an external CD-Rom and got the same problem.

Any guidance on someone that may have been able to work through this issue would be great.

Thanks

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#2 2009-12-10 17:57:45

jocheem67
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Registered: 2009-11-09
Posts: 243

Re: ARCH on EEE 1005HA

I'm running Arch happily on an asus 1005HA-H

Two things: first get into your bios and change

---advanced ---- ide configuration ---configure sata as 'ahci', to 'ide'

Then , if this doesn't work, review your usb-flashdrive: did you format it ext3 instead of fat32? That might actually help...did you use unetbootin or the dd-command? I feel that "dd" might be smarter.

I don't recall which tool I used, i do know that it's ext3-formatted.

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#3 2009-12-10 18:18:21

phoenix89
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Registered: 2009-08-07
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Re: ARCH on EEE 1005HA

I have been using Unetbootin because I have never used the dd command before is there a link somewhere that shows how to use it.  My flash drive has been formated fat32.

Thanks

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#4 2009-12-10 23:14:30

jocheem67
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Registered: 2009-11-09
Posts: 243

Re: ARCH on EEE 1005HA

Check the Arch wiki for asus eee. There's several wiki's on the different types and the "dd" method is covered.

alrighty...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick

2.6.32 ( the newest kernel ) might btw solve issues on wifi and the internal mic ( not sure )..maybe you should wait for that?
I don't know how linux-savvy you are..

Last edited by jocheem67 (2009-12-10 23:16:43)

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#5 2009-12-14 04:41:55

DarksideEE7
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From: Arkansas, United States
Registered: 2009-06-06
Posts: 356

Re: ARCH on EEE 1005HA

I was able to install fine on my 1002HA using a USB drive.  This is the method that  I used:
format flash drive (I've installed/run distros using SD and USB flash) using parted or fdisk.  I used ext2
sudo dd if=*Arch iso i686 image path* of=/dev/sdb (or whatever yours is)
reboot and select card reader as first hard drive
should run fine after that...

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