eeepc 1000 notes

The best darn device since the Model 100

Hardware Specs Model 1000

• 40gb ssd drive. /dev/sda 8GB and /dev/sdb 32GB
Note: Usually the MMC/SD card becomes /dev/sdc1
The first usb storage device usually becomes /dev/sdd
The first ssd - 8GB - is screwed in, so it might be upgradeable
• Accepts USB and MMC/SD

Boot key options

• esc - will bring up a boot ment
• Alt-F2 - will try to boot and update a BIOS

Easy Peasy v1.0 Install Notes

  Manual Drive Partition.
  Choose Format.
  Leave Swap
  / on sda
  /home on sdb
After install:
cd /
df 
Verify all is as you want.

Additional Software Installs I find useful:
apt-get update - pull over software catalogs
apt-get install perl-doc
apt-get isntall iftop
apt-get install groff
apt-get install gedit-plugins
apt-get -y install manpages-dev
apt-get -y install glibc-doc
apt-get remove ubiquity

Easy Peasy v1.0 General Use Notes

To connect to wireless -
Do not use network admin for wireless - click on icon in top right.

Resetting the root password:
   Boot Linux into single-user mode
   1. Reboot the machine.
   2. Press the ESC key while GRUB is loading to enter the menu.
   3. If there is a 'recovery mode' option, select it and press 'b' to boot into single user mode.
   4. Otherwise, the default boot configuration should be selected. Press 'e' to edit it.
   5. Highlight the line that begins with 'kernel'. Press 'e' again to edit this line.
   6. At the end of the line, add an additional parameter: 'single'. Hit return to make the change and press 'b' to boot.

   Change the admin password
   The system should load into single user mode and you'll be left at the command line automatically logged in as root.
   Type 'passwd' to change the root password or 'passwd someuser' to change the password for your "someuser" admin account.

CPU Memory Upgrade

Purchase one Kingston 2gb DDR pc2-5300 667MHz the 1000 only has one memory slot.

Run top - you should get  1,025,100 
Remove power, Remove battery
Place upside down on it's cover
Remove two screws, you will need to pull up as there are two plastic snaps
    holding thee door in place
Replace existing 1Gb part with new 2Gb part
Replace Memory Cover - the cover will not easily snap back in to place, 
    the best way I found to do this torq up one side, get it snap in to place,
    then bow up the middle to get it to snap in to place
Replace Battery and apply power
Run top - you should now see  2,064,440


Updating the BIOS - Sounds easy right?
This is my rehash of the directions found on blakeanthonyjohnson.com with out them, I wouldn't have got this going... 

Go to ASUS website and pull down the correct BIOS for your machine
This will be a zip, unzip, you will end up with a filename like:
    0803.ROM
Easy Peasy does not come with a BIOS update utility
eee pc 1000 provides for BIOS updates by hitting alt-f2 at boot up
Format a USB device so that it looks like this:
    Most advice for updateing your BIOS this way says make sure the 
    partition is fat16 - that's good advice as far as it goes - but 
    you also need to make the boot partition happy, here is a copy
    from my working key.

    fdisk 
    Command (m for help): p
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdd1   *           1        1018      978267   16  Hidden FAT16

   mkfs.msdos -F 16 /dev/sdd1 

   Now copy 0803.ROM to the new parition as 1000.rom
   alt-f2 and you should be good to go.

Reference Sites:
http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page
http://www.blakeanthonyjohnson.com/?p=170