Comments on: Latest Ubuntu on Asus EeePC 900 20G laptop

By: Andythefeatch

Andythefeatch — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:52:26 +0000

I bought an eeepc 900 with the tiny battery and it’d barely make 1 1/2 hours. However since I bit the bullet and installed Ubuntu with all the eeepc tweeks I’m getting an amazing 4h 15mins before it dies. This drops to about 3 1/2 hours if I’ve got the wireless on.

By: GregE

GregE — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:17:57 +0000

For anyone stuck like the above post

open a terminal window

type “sudo nautilus”

put in your password when prompted

navigate to the folder of the 16gb drive - probably /media/disk

right click and select properties and then permissions. Change ownership to your login name and make sure you have read wite permissions - click on apply permissions to enclosed files

Exit out and you are done.

A better way is to select custom partitioning at install and make the 16gb disk your /home partition

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:19:16 +0000

I have a UK specification Eee PC 900 with the crap battery pack - only getting about 45 mins with Ubuntu (screen dimmed, volume low, WiFi on). Otherwise it rocks - people can’t believe the performance of the GUI (running with “extra” visual effects setting) … now if I could only get the 16Gb disk to work; I have changed FSTAB and it mounts but is owned by ROOT so I can’t write to it

By: Philipp

Philipp — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:10:37 +0000

Dear Jeff,

thanks a lot for your thorough installation guide. I have followed it in all its details and
now have a perfectly set-up EeePC 900.

It should be great for travelling.

Philipp

By: HR

HR — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:59:46 +0000

I wonder.. I realize the sucker is small (thinking about getting one myself with taxes..) but does it handle anything with compfusion?

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:11:06 +0000

Yes, I had the same thing and just added the following to my /etc/fstab…

/dev/sdb1 /media/storage ext3 defaults 1 2

Then the 16 gig drive automounts and a link is placed on your desktop.

By: syphax

syphax — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:16:51 +0000

I’ve encountered the same problem. You only need to mount the second ssd (/dev/sdb1) on a mount point. Make sure the sdb1 is formatted (you can use gparted to see that)

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:50:47 +0000

Hey nice write-up….

I’m just recently installed Ubuntu on my 900 but it’s not detecting the full 20G, only 4.

Did you experience this issue at all in your installation?