--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I have F14 installed and running on an
EeePC 701 -- the earliest
smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
It boots and it runs. But it's not
usable yet; for one thing,
when I set it to boot, I then have to check every
quarter-hour or two to
see if it has finished yet ....
I fear there may be too much operating system for it. Probably not enough RAM.
According to baobab, the biggest thing
still left in the whole
filesystem is /usr/share/locale. (I cut out apps utterly
ruthlessly while
installing.)
Can I simply delete all of
/usr/share/locale, or all but one of
the folders in it?? Or shrink it some other way??
Yes, you can, but use the Package Manager to do it. Otherwise, you may screw up the
package database. Also, get rid of all those printer drivers the same way. You don't
need 400 of them hanging around on the hard drive, do you? Get rid of the apps you
don't need as you have. How about all those fonts? How many do you really need? Get
rid of OpenOffice, if you don't need all the other parts. Abiword works just fine as
a word processor and is much, much smaller. Don't need to compile anything? Out goes
the compiler, headers, etc. You really only need one kernel. Get rid of the others and
their associated files. How about all the man and info pages? You could even substitute
BusyBox for many of the terminal commands.
I just finished putting the final touches on a "Like New", eBay'd eeePC 900
I gave as an early Christmas gift to a technophobic lady friend of mine. I was able to
easily eliminate 1.2 gigs of stuff from a standard install of Eeebuntu 3.0. (I didn't
want the hassles of troubleshooting a Fedora install. Eeebuntu was purported to work 100%
out of the box. It did.) It defaults to the Gnome desktop with all the bells and
whistles, and installs on a 4GB SSD (3.3 before trimming to 2.1) and runs fine with 512MB
RAM using about half after booting to the desktop. I upgraded to 1 gig as a safety
margin. The machine was hitting the swap occassionally, but not much.
Anyway, maybe this link will be of help you.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc
Take a look at 'revisor' to create your own custom Fedora spin. Almost considered
this for the above eeePC, but it would have involved way too much work.
or
http://code.google.com/p/eeedora/
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/09/15/how-to-install-fedora-on-your-eee-pc/
B