Not that I needed it, but just because I can, I had to change the distro on my Eee PC. I tried some things and found out that ubuntu did what I wanted. Out of the box, Ubuntu is not wel adapted to the Eee pc. So I use the Ubuntu eee script. Finally I installed the mythtv frontend, just because I always feel the need to install Mythtv on all hardware I have. I did al this on an SDHC card, so I can jump back to the standard xandros.
Later on, I will wright an howto in dutch. For now I will point out, what to do.
1. Make an ubuntu install usb-key
For this you just need to follow exactky what is written on this site:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/28/usb-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-install/
2. install ubuntu on a spare SDHC-card
Plug in your newly usb-key and at boot when you see the grey screen, press ESC. There you can chose your usb-key to boot from. Change your language and keyboard mapping and let it boot.
When booted, you do click on install. Fellow the gide lines, but choose for manual disk partitioning. Pick your SDHC card and only make 1 primairy partition in ext2 and give it / (root) as mountpoint. The installation will complain not having swap, we don't care.
Finally I chose to install the grub boot loader on the SDHC card and not on the SSD drive. So I clicked on advanced and made (hd0) in to (hd1) (In my case 0 = SSD, 1 = SD-card and 2 = USB-key)
When finished, close down and remove the usb-key
3. Boot the new SD-card
Make sure you have a wired network connection.
On boot, when you have the grey screen, press ESC and then when you see thegrub bootmenu, on the first entry press "e" twice, chance (hd2,0) into (hd0,0), press enter and then "b".
When you finally booted into ubuntu, first open a terminal and do:
sudo -i
vim /boot/grub/device.map #(only leave entry 1 and 2, delete the others).
vim /boot/grub/menu.lst #(go looking at the and for the menu entry's, there change (hd2,0) into (hd0,0) and change (hd0,0) into (hd1,0).
grub-install /dev/sdb (that should be your SD-card, check with fdisk -l)
Now you can do all updates, let it run , it will take a some time.
4. run the ubuntu-eee-script.
Finally, when you reboot, you will have an updated Ubuntu on yout SD card. Now you only have to execute some sripts, so all hardware drivers are in place.
Just follow all things as explained on this website:
http://ubuntu-eee.tuxfamily.org/index.php5?title=How_to_use_the_ubuntu-eee_script
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