Asus 702 Eee PC ubuntu
Contents
Ubuntu 11.10
- Name: Rock for Rocky Butte
- Admin: eepp
Tips
- Use Alt left click to move the screen around to expose the offscreen buttons.
- Use Ctl Alt T to open a terminal
- xterm is under dash home - System
- Important At login time - select the gear and choose 2D - This will clear up display problems. Otherwixe on 12.04 mouse clicks won't work and it with eventually die with a Compiz closed unexpectedly.
Version
eepp@Rock:~$ date Sun Jan 26 09:14:05 PST 2014 eepp@Rock:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric eepp@Rock:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.0.0-12-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011
Upgrade to 12.04 - precise
From the Ubuntu Dash menu I searched for Update.
eepp@Rock:~$ date Sun Jan 26 14:27:18 PST 2014 eepp@Rock:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise eepp@Rock:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.2.0-58-generic (buildd@akateko) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:40:43 UTC 2013
Install from Scratch
Mount /usr
The 702 has only 8GM of SSD. As shown above the ROS Installation Hydro, 3.8G is used in /usr. The result is 86% disk usage. Here, /usr in moved to an SD card and mounted at boot. Warning - mistakes can result in an un-bootable system.
Don't start the display manager (dm) at the login window . Instead <CTL> <ALT> <F1> to initiate a terminal. As a result, there will be a less likelyhood of any dependencies on /usr.
sudo is in /usr/bin. We can't use it when we break ties to /usr. We must log into root to do this setup.
sudo passwd root su -
See Linux Maintenance for SD card preparation. (-a is -dpR)
cp -a /usr/* /media/2ff2af82-3efd-4ce8-a768-a7055c5035a7 cp fstab fstab.org cp fstab fstab.new nano fstab.new
Add to the end fstab.new
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext4 defaults 0 1
cp fstab.new fstab mv /usr /usrorg
Could do a umount /media/2f..., then mount /dev/sdb1 on /usr just for safety before reboot.
reboot
Got some errors during reboot. Check the mounts.
df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 6537352 2574324 3607908 42% / udev 499508 4 499504 1% /dev tmpfs 203328 876 202452 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 508316 200 508116 1% /run/shm /dev/sdb1 15073280 1853092 13203804 13% /usr
All is good. Now I feel safe to remove the original /usr
rm -rf /usrorg df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 6537352 673724 5508508 11% / udev 499508 4 499504 1% /dev tmpfs 203328 876 202452 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 508316 200 508116 1% /run/shm /dev/sdb1 15073280 1853092 13203804 13% /usr
My 8G SSD now has some breating room.
gnome
sudo apt-get install gnome
df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 6537352 910736 5271496 15% / udev 499508 4 499504 1% /dev tmpfs 203328 888 202440 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 508316 156 508160 1% /run/shm /dev/sdb1 15073280 2468924 12587972 17% /usr
Display Manager DM
gnome display manager
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Also of interest before window start up
<ctl><alt> F1 sudo stop lightdm sudo start gdm
See
Window Manager
From the login dm select gnome classic without effects or Ubuntu 2D. Other choices are not compatible with the HW graphics and will result in program faults.
Links
- fitPC2 ubuntu
- Ubuntu Install] Asus 701 Eee PC]
- Asus 702 Eee PC Wikipedia
