Personal Computing and Development by Dag J. Nedrelid

My Eee PC 900 – Final

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XP
When I first got the computer I decided to try XP on it. It quickly became obvious that it would be a bad idea to continue on that path as my Eee doesn’t have the speedy 4gb SSD required to run XP fast enough.
My notes on installing XP

Debian
The computer already came with linux, but I wanted to see if I could put my own tailored Debian system on it and get it to work – it went very well.
My notes on installing Debian

I mainly did these installations out of curiosity and as a fun challenge. As the dust settles from bashing the keyboards for many hours while setting up different configurations, it becomes clear that the original Xandros system is more than good enough for this computer, and works perfectly fine for a netbook’s purpose.

A simple terminal and apt-get with custom repositories is all I need to turn the original Xandros into what I need (extra applications) when I bring it with me. The rest has been done very well by Asus.

Restoring the orginal system took only 5-10 minutes from a USB drive created from the CD’s that came with it, as I initially deleted the partition needed to restore with F9 during boot. It could not have been any easier, and I’m glad I got rid of the extra needless partitions that were on the computer initially.

A happy ending for the Eee adventure with Xandros!