* Posts by elor

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The best netbook-friendly Linux distros

elor

Booting those distro on EeePc

Myself, I had problems to test all those distributions, because my EeePc only boots "superfloppy" images from USB thumb drive or SD card, and I do not have an external USB CD/DVD drive.

What I did was downloading the CD/DVD image for each distributions (let's call it distribution_image.iso) and download this utility:

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/g/gu/gujin/install-2.6.tar.gz/install/gujin?extract=true

Then, just modify the iso file on Linux by:

./gujin distribution_image.iso

You get a bi-format (ISO9660 and superfloppy) bootable image that you can write on a CDROM, but also write on a USB thumb drive or a SD-card like:

umount /dev/sdg* && cat distribution_image.iso > /dev/sdg && sync

(you should check that the USB thumb drive / SD-card is /dev/sdg and you should backup it because all files are destroyed).

Then, my EeePc booted every distributions I tried.