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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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