Simon Elliott wrote:
F2 - yes, I've been into the BIOS, and guddled around under the 'Boot' header. AFAICS, USB is not mentioned, though solid state memory (OWTTE) is. This is a very early Eee - so early that I had to queueueueueue for it - somewhere around a month (but that might have been down to the tradr, who was going down the pan). I think the 900 is a lot newer - this has I think) 4 GB HDD.
Try ESC. I remember hitting esc during boot to do it and you get a small boot menu up in the centre of the screen asking what to boot from. You have to time the ESC hit just right or it'll skip that bit. Although, as you say the difference could lay in Eee900 vs. Eee 7*series.
Worst comes to the worst, come to Norwich, see me, get me down the pub with a backpack USB powered DVD drive I can borrow from work and we'll do it that way!! I am determined to see you on Crunchbang cos you'll love it over the naff Xandros.
Promble is, my last bus home leaves Naaardge at 5.45 pm, and there are no buses over the weekend period, period. I'm not using the pushbike at this time of year, and I won't have the motorcycle on the road till I've got my act together and renewed my driving licence (I've reached that age innit), and fettled the ironmongery.
I've got an external DVD drive, but it works off a 3-pronged brick, and while I'm quite content to bring that, the only portable power source I have for it is a bleeping UPS...
Running a USB-powered drive would eat this Eee's battery in a very short time - it only lasts for half an hour or so with dongle as it is.
/snip/
What do you mean by 'massive'? They're all too big, even the old Crucial 64 MB one which is hiding in my drawers... With a USB stick (or dongle) in, the slot beside it can't be used. <thinks> I might be persuaded to run the mouse from the other side innit. </thinks>
Massive as in bigger than ~700MB. Which all mine are. I've got several 2gb and a 4gb!
700 MB? Tiddler! My first was 64 MB, the second 256 MB, the next two were 2 GB, and the last one 4 GB. If a card-reader works the same way, I have an 8 GB microSD one, but that's more than half full. Another is on the shopping list.
Non spare though except a monstrously slow USB 1.1 one.
Huh! The dongle needs to be in one of the slots on the right, unless I rearrange the whole room - there's only one window in the house where I can get a usable signal (FSVO useful)
Yeah Xboot just does what Keith described but it does it all for you automatically(!!)
That's what I like to hear. and I hope it does it on EXT# rather than FAT - that will prevent XP from scribbling on it if I happen to have it plunged into the flaptop when I want to use Irfanviw.