Hello, I installed ArchLinux with our LXDE http://lxde.org/ desktop on it and its super fast!(If you don't know what's LXDE, it's a fast, lightweight, beautiful, and fully-functional desktop environment.See the screenshots here: http://lxde/org/screenshots.html)

After some upgrade, optimization and stripping unnecessary packages, I made a backup for the system so other EeePC users can put my pre-installed files on their EeePC without going through the long process of installation + optimization.

The file: http://people.linux.org.tw/~pcman/arch-lxde.tar.gz  ( 185 MB )user name: user, password: userroot password: lxde

The most important thing, LXDE is correctly configured so it works perfectly.Also, I set up auto-login. So, after power on, you'll enter the desktop directly.

I replaced the original kernel with kernel26-eee along with most of the modiciationsof some config files listed on Arch wiki to make the hardware work, and all hardwareshould work without problems.The only thing that doesn't work for this system is ACPI and Fn keys.I didn't know how to use the scripts posted on the Arch wiki.So, help is needed here.

This is a optimized base desktop system without unnecessary packages.So you can start tweaking and installing other programs with this to save a lot of time.

Installation guide:It's a tar.gz compressed archive for my system, so just untar them into any existing file systems.

1. Get a working live usb. If you already created one for arch installation, use that and skip this step.Otherwise, I suggest xPud: ftp://140.128.36.142/devel/xpud-0.4-liveusb.zip.Just unzip all of the files into your usb disk, and run: syslinux -s /dev/sdx1 (for example: /dev/sdb1) on your usb device and it works.By default this live usb will give you X + firefox. Please edit boot/finit to comment out xvesa and sudo ubuntu lines to get pure console.

2. Put my arch-lxde.tar.gz inside the usb disk.

3. Boot your eee with the usb disk. Delete all of the existing partitions on the Xandros system.Recreate the file system on your HDD with cfdisk and mkfs.

4. Mount the newly created partitions, and untar my files to your root partition on the SSD (/dev/sda1).

6. edit /etc/fstab provided by me since I use ext2 but you might use others.

7. Run grub-install /dev/sda. Sorry grub is not included in xPud...If you are lucky, you already have grub in your mbr, then this step can be skipped.I assume that you can install grub with other live usb. Since you guys use Arch,you are experienced Linux users and this is quite easy.

8. Done! Play with your Arch + LXDE now and showoff to your friends! 

Last edited by PCMan (2008-06-12 05:02:45)