Got this Eee PC without OS.
Planned to install it myself.
This netbook don’t have cd drive.
so the choice is via pxeboot or flash/thumb drive.
(have set PXE boot several month ago for CentOS, and have no desire to do it again or my head will split :) )
so via flash drive then
we could use any thumb drive and any iso, given it have enough space
we could make this pen drive bootable with any tool (windowsbased, linux via dd, os x based, unix based) just google for it
Okay
what now
First, we must set BIOS of this netbook to boot via USB drive
to enter BIOS we must press F2 after powered this device on
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or maybe F1
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ESC
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DEL
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F12
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err, it seem I couldn’t get bios interface. Googling around and found out that I have to repeat the press on F2 fast
and, hooray…
succeed, installed OS on it
but, wait
my OS is 32bit
I have 4GB RAM on this eee PC and 32bit OS generally could only handle 3.6GB RAM, oh my…
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download 64bit iso
make it bootable on flashdrive
reinstall the OS, but…. it won’t enter BIOS, again
no mater how fast I press F2 key it’ll always go to OS boot
same thing happenend to del, esc, F1, F12 keys
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:(
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(wish for luck)
grab external usb keyboard
plug it on
press power, press F2 and, tadaa…, oh my God, that BIOS interface…
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(reinstalling)
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now my ASUS Eee PC have 64bit OS on it
:)
