Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

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Subject	Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC
Date	Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:20:01 +0100
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On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:48:39 +0000
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of
> Debian on an Asus EEE PC?  This is a small notebook sized laptop with
> Celeron cpu and little space & memory.  I've just found one in one of
> my boxes and thought I'd see if I can make use of it.  It's currently
> running with a 2.x kernel!

It might help if you gave us a bit more information.

Exact make and model number? You should be able to find that on a label
somewhere or with dmidecode.

How much memory? free -h should tell us that.

How large a local hard drive do you have?

I suspect you need a minimum of 1 GiB of RAM to run Bookworm, but the
more the merrier. How much hard drive you need depends on what you want
to put on it.

If you have another machine with more hard drive space, an NFS server
might extend your usable space on the EEE PC.

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Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-01-05 17:50 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-01-05 18:40 +0100
    Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-01-05 22:40 +0100
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    Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-02-07 14:40 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-01-05 18:40 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-01-05 18:40 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-05 19:30 +0100
    Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-01-05 19:50 +0100
      Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-01-08 12:20 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-01-06 00:20 +0100

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