{"id":817,"date":"2009-05-19T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2009-06-01T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T09:25:01","slug":"linux-on-eee-s101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/linux-on-eee-s101\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux on eee s101"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got myself a new toy the other day: an Eee PC S101<\/a> with 16GB SSD, an extra 32GB SDHC and 2GB ram.<\/p>\n

\"AsusThere’s already a bazillion instructions on how to install and run Linux on your EEE PCs out there, but they all seemed to miss one (for me) crucial little detail:<\/p>\n

In order to boot from the SD card, you need to press Escape<\/strong> when the bios start-up screen shows.<\/p>\n

But now: to get the bios screen to show, you need some extra magic: you need to press F2<\/strong> immediately at start-up to enter the bios setup screen and then you need to disable “boot booster<\/strong>” as otherwise it’ll skip the escape checking entirely!<\/p>\n

Using this trick, I’ve now installed easypeasy<\/a> on it and I’ll dual-boot with XP for a while since it came factory installed with that.<\/p>\n

I’ve fallen for the commercials and also subscribed to 3g broadband now (you know the blatant lying “up to 7.2mbit” which never in reality can even come close even if I would be alone sitting on top of a base station) and I warmed up my toy and connection the other day (still running XP then) by working on curl<\/a> code and made a few commits etc, while sitting on a wooden bench next to the field where my daughter was having her soccer practice.<\/p>\n

In fact, SSHing to my primary servers and editing code with emacs<\/a> or reading email with alpine<\/a> turned out a much better experience than I anticipated as I’ve read about how terrible the roundtrip times can be over 3g. It actually didn’t feel a lot more different than my regular SSHing from home over wifi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got myself a new toy the other day: an Eee PC S101 with 16GB SSD, an extra 32GB SDHC and 2GB ram. There’s already a bazillion instructions on how to install and run Linux on your EEE PCs out there, but they all seemed to miss one (for me) crucial little detail: In order … Continue reading Linux on eee s101<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[259,163,421,261],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-net","tag-3g","tag-broadband","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}