eeePC Install!

phoenix89 · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 14

What do you use for the MAKEOPTS? Currently I have it set to MAKEOPTS="-j2" for the EEE 1005HA I believe it is a N270

Anyone know the required drivers for the make menuconfig? In the past when I installed Gentoo I haven't had the greatest success.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject:

I just use -j2 for that, taking advantage of dual threading on the N270. It's only slightly faster, I saw maybe 5% tops or so, cuts down on the dead time at least...
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phoenix89 · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 14

If you take advantage of dual threading should it be MAKEOPTS="-j3"

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

phoenix89 · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 14

Ok thanks, didn't really understand the details about the atom processor.

Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

If the original poster is still here, might I suggest upgrading to a newer SSD? There is a 40GB SSD from Intel that supports trim, which should have much better performance than the 4GB one that came with your EeePC:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167025

Anyway, I had Gentoo Linux in a virtual machine on an 8GB virtual disk recently. It ran out of space fairly quickly, but I found a few ways to save space. One was emerge gentoolkit and run eclean-dist.

Another way was to emerge xorg-server instead of xorg-x11 and kdebase-meta instead of kde-meta. Although I have only recently put them to regular use, the lightweight versions of those packages seem to get the job done.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:22 pm Post subject:

Moved from Gentoo Chat to Installing Gentoo.
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately many of the Eee's use mini PCIe mass storage devices, and won't take regular form factor disks (some do, afaik; however mine doesn't, no moving parts!)

I just wanted a Gentoo install for my Eee that's equivalent (at least in steady state) to Ubuntu (eeebuntu flavor but same difference)... Ubuntu fits very easily in 4GB (Gnome, Openoffice, whole 9 yards). And can also upgrade through apt-get or Synaptic Package Manager and can check for package upgrades for security upgrades.

Despite the total cost of upgrades in Gentoo is larger (bigger footprint as in compile size) I had 800MB free on Ubuntu -- if I had an analog where the 800MB could be used as compile space fodder then I'd be happy -- it's not steady state disk utilization. Chopping out portage however would be a significant loss in "equivalence" to ubuntu as now there's no way to upgrade without lugging another disk around.

I'm still a bit too lazy to get that squashfs portage working, but it does sound like what I need. Wish it was a read-write instead of having to regenerate the squashfs every update, but so be it...
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curmudgeon · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 1741

My questions got marked as duplicate, and I got referred here, so...:

I am trying to build gentoo for an eee (700) on a machine with 64-bit gentoo (following the handbook). Unfortunately, when I tried to chroot, I got:

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

amd64 chroot should be able to run ia32 binaries.

Make sure you used a ia32 (ix86 where x is 5 or higher) stage tarball. Also make sure youre 64bit kernel has the ability to execute 32bit binaries. (under executable fileformats).

usually it is advisable to chroot using the command

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject:

I thought the 7" (700-series) Eees were all Celeron (P3) based and do not support 64-bit?
What CPU do you have in it? Are you actually booting a 64-bit kernel?

I was wondering if my 900A would support 64-bit and I don't think so, it's only an Atom N270 which I believe has 64-bit disabled. Looks like 230, 330, D410, N450, and D510 Atoms will support 64-bit.

[EDIT]
Yes I misread...
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r,

I think you have misread - curmudgeon is using a 64 bit host to build a 32 bit install for his eeePC.
That should just work as long as the 64 bit build host is using a multilib profile.
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somedudeppf · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hey eccerr0r,

I actually installed Gentoo on my 900A (with a 32GB SSD) this morning, but have run into a problem with getting the ethernet working.

I have tried building the driver into the kernel as well as loading is as a module with modprobe (I tried both atl1 and atl2).

Did you have any similar issues?

Also, how much of an improvement do you get when using distcc? I imagine it's considerable, but since I haven't started compiling, I have yet to witness the awesome compiling power of the eee!

Thanks,
-AW

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:11 pm Post subject:

My ethernet works fine, worked a lot better than wifi.

I used the atl1e driver for Ethernet. I compiled as a module. When I lspci it shows up as "Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)" ... I never tried the other two (I think I just copied off of what worked in Ubuntu).

Distcc helps a little. The biggest issue being network speed (wifi and 100Mbit is "slow") and the speed of the other machines.
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somedudeppf · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:29 pm Post subject:

Wow, and like magic alt1e works.

I'm ease into installing the others slowly, but I'm sure I'll have another question or so to toss your way.

It seems like no one has these 900A's, I'm rather fond of them myself.

-aw

curmudgeon · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 1741