Trisquel in Eee Pc 2 Gb hard drive
The trisquel live usb and the Mini live usb load nicely, even the wifi works! but i just have 2 Gb of space! what the hell i was thinking when i bought this crap many years ago, i had it in the closet with out use, but im very poor now and i need this machine to work ! what could i do? this is the exact machine that i have http://www.amazon.com/7-Inch-Display-Mobile-Processor-Preloaded/dp/B00114T9WY i feel like crap
The device only came with 2GB. I don't understand the problem.
You could use an external USB for extra storage, or an SD card, etc, etc.
The problem is that 2GB is an awfully small amount (I've got that much RAM, and in a $400 laptop of a decent size (it's anything but business quality, though)) for an operating system plus files.
And having said that your 2nd sentence was the solution to what from the looks of it we both can see, but only one of use think of as an "actual" problem.
do a text install, which is net-installer. install e17 for GUI.
Get a USB hard drive (i.e. a 500 GB one, or bigger), tape (or otherwise stick) it onto the back of the monitor.
Please note that I wrote USB hard drive, not flash drive.
Anyway, the entire internal hard drive will probably make a good swap partition.
Can i use an SD card? it has a port for SD card, i could just use that as a hard drive? if its the case how can i make the Eee PC to be able to install it in that hard drive?
I think I've read something about how flash drives and SD cards will wear out faster or something like that, while hard drives won't, it seems (which is why I really suggest a hard drive - a "real" one, but that connects to the USB port). Anyway, how many USB ports have you got?
By the way, this is what I meant by hard drive:
ok i have a 1 Tb external hard drive, a Trascended, i think i will just do the " tape the harddrive thing" but how can i make the Eee to install trisquel in this drive?
Use a flash drive with another USB port? Then install from the live session to the hard drive (I think it's an option available in the installer).
And then (as I've nearly forgotten), pray that the laptop's capable of booting from a USB hard drive.
The Eee PC is capable of doing so, at least from what other people said in the comments on the page.
Hey!
Don't feel bad mate :)
Me too feel that having the money to invest in a newer pc would be great, but I am happy that I actually have a laptop to use that isn't broken. Life is already expensive A LOT in many ways, computers are the last of our worries most of the time.
HAVING said that, I will also add that you actually have a nice machine. It's a small one (which i dislike, glad that mine is big) but it has what you need to run GNU/Linux. Of course that would depend on your personal needs. What do you do with your computer?
If you are geeky and want to go with command line only OS, you will have no performance issues. If you just want to go with the "regular" use, you just have to use lighter applications. As a reference I would suggest you took a look at DSL (damn small linux) since it is intended for older pcs. You will get an idea of what you can do with little hardware.
Since your main problem is the installation of Trisquel (freedom issues make it harder to use other distros, though you could use one and take off the blobs and such), you could try a mini install and remove stuff you don't need.
I ADVISE AGAINST USING TAPE TO GET AND HDD IN THE BACK OF THE MONITOR. You will most likely screw the monitor in no time (if not the HDD also). The internal work of the HDD will affect the monitor in little time and the weight will damage the connectors. So, don't do that. The table is a nice place to put the HDD.
I really hope you can make the best out of it, because GNU/Linux was always a friend of modest hardware machines, and an Eee should be enough. If you were with Windows it was a game over even before the game begun of course xD lol.
BUt with linux kernel (which is still modest) and the appropriate free software choices, you can make a great use of it. For reference give a read at DSL (damn small linux) and Vector Linux. You can take some ideas from them and apply it with free software :)