Trisquel on Asus EEE 901
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I have recently found out the following:
The recovery disc with my eee 901 SUCKS (never using again)
Trisquel Mini is not ready for mainstream usage
Installing Trisquel full on my 4/16 GB SSD gave me low disk space errors in 2 days
Trying to install Trisquel full on the 16 gb part of my 4/16 SSD gives me the error of not being able to install the bootloader on that partition.
So what I need to do is:
Install Trisquel on the 4 gb part of my SSD, BUT make sure that the packages are installed on the 16 GB partition so I don't randomly run out of space due to updates and adding packages. Can you help? Thanks
By the way Trisquel ROCKS in comparison to that crappy EEE PC standard OS they shipped it with back in 2007. It is non-Free anyways, the losers.
You can have a separate partition, on the 16GB part of the disk, where /usr will be mounted. Most of the software is in /usr and you will never fill the whole 4GB partition (where / is mounted). You can do that during the install procedure by choosing a custom partitioning scheme. You can also create this partition from a Live system (such as a Trisquel Live pendrive) with GParted, move everything from your current /usr to the new partition and add to /etc/fstab the line that will mount during the init, the file system of your new partition on /usr.
Notice also that cleaning, from time to time, the cache of APT (with the command 'sudo apt-get clean' or from the Synaptic package manager) saves quite some (hundreds of) megabytes.
Thanks, after less than one day with that EEE OS, whatever it is (xandros?) I want to go back to the Libre side. Trisquel, here I come (again)...
Yeah, so I make 2 partitions on the 16gbSSD part, one for /home and one for /usr, do you recommend particular sizes? Then I just will set the 4GB drive as the mount point for /
Thanks again, you guys here at Trisquel have those corporate goons who made that sleazy EEE OS thoroughly whipped.
I have an EeePC 1000, and it has the same 4/16 GB SSD setup. I just partitioned it with / on the 4GB drive, and /home on the 16 GB one. It's worked just fine for me (I've never gotten any low disk space errors), but it probably depends on how many packages you plan on installing.
The partition where /usr is mounted should be large enough for all the softwares you want to install. Once they are all install, its size will not grow. If you have access to another GNU/Linux system with about the software you want to install, just fire 'du -hs /usr' and you will have an idea of the appropriate size. Notice that the data files for video games require much space.
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