Select File system FAT32, Allocation Unit Size: Deafult allocation size and be sure that Quick Format is checked, now click on Start and wait until end.
HOW TO INSTALL ANDROID ON EEE PC 701 WINDOWS
Return to My Computer, insert your SD Card to the Eee PC slot, let’s suppose Windows identifies it as E: (again be very sure of this step cause you are going to wipe all the data stored on this drive) Wait for the copy, at the end you will be asked for a reboot, choose NOT TO REBOOT Select Distribution, then on the first scrolldown menu “FreeBSD” and on the second “7.0”.Īt the bottom of the window select as Type “USB”, and on Drive select the device seen before (we have supposed D: for Windows and /dev/sda1 for Linux) then click OK Let’s format that: # mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 Insert a pendrive on the USB port on the left from your Eee PC and type from a terminal: # dmesgįrom here you can observe how Linux identifies it, let’s suppose sda1 (be sure of this step cause you are going to wipe all data on this device) Select File System: FAT32, Allocation Unit Size Default and Fast formatting, then click on “Format” and just wait the process to be completed (that at the time of writing is 7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso, as follows we will suppose that this is the release that you want to use)ĭetach all peripherals connected to your notebook (have a look to your SD-Card slot too)Ĭonnect a pendrive on the USB port on the left from you Eee PC, let’s suppose that Windows identifies it as D: (be very careful of this step cause you are going to wipe all of the data standing on D:) 1 external USB drive 1GB min if you want to perform an installation of FreeBSD on a USB drive ĭownload the first CD of the latest release of FreeBSD i386 from the following link:.My advice is to make a backup of ALL OF YOUR DEVICES you are going to use before to perform any operation, even if you are going to install FreeBSD on a USB stick make a backup of your Hard-Disk! Procedures listed in this guide should require root privileges
HOW TO INSTALL ANDROID ON EEE PC 701 HOW TO
What you can find on the net is some installation howtos for Windows XP and Linux, but it won’t be easy to find out how to install a BSD system ( apart from a collection of failures at 😛 ), so I decided to write this step by step tutorial which will guide you through the installation of FreeBSD on an ASUS Eee PC 701 (4G) from USB drive, hope this helps all of you who already tried or want to try this “challenge”….at the end you will realize that this is not so difficult as it seems, you have just to know where to put your hands. I’m actually writing from my last purchase the ASUS EeePC 701, a real jewel with a good support for Linux and BSD systems.
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