Is there a method for this?

How can you get the livecd to USB stick?

Does M8 work with Unetbootin?

Antix 8 base would be perfect on my 2gb SD card on the Eee..

Sure there is. Lagopus' script works great. He is also building a gui for it so do a quick search before you begin. I think the whole reason for it was to install on a eeepc.


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He also has a quick how to for installing on the eeepc.

No need for a gui, installed fine.

On the eee pc I then got the expected problem: that the device was wrong, /dev/sdc1 not sdb1, this of course because I now had removed the
usb stick.
I corrected /boot/grub/device.map and menu.list and /etc/fstab, replacing /dev/sdc1 with /sdb1

I now expected the thing to boot but no:

grub stops with code: Error 15 file not found


SOLVED: realized that it's device hd0,0 not hd1,0 because I boot from the sd card to boot AntiX

Coyotito:
Please, let me know your feelings about antiX on the eepc.

Downloaded antiX-M8 final, not yet installed.
M8-prefinal worked fine. Wifi works, configured with wicd.
(I do not understand any more how mepis' mnetwork tool works: it doesn't list available networks, and I do not know how I should navigate through the tabs to restart the network - I use fixed address, not dhcp -)

I did not test the webcam. Does it work?

I have a new version (I have to package it) of the antix2usb.sh script, with some additional options (too many options maybe!).
Since the USB stick partition table is erased, I reformat the stick with a 512 MB bootable partition (97 % full with antiX-M8 iso !) and I format the remaining space with a fat32 partition for user data (fat32 since I got 4 GB and 8 GB sticks)

As ariefisher said:"the whole reason for it was to install on a eeepc."
... and to avoid burning CDs with mixed results,
... and to carry a ready to use live-USB antiXready

The gui is almost ready... need some polishing (for instance: I use kdesu to gain root privileges - since I am developing on my Mepis-KDE laptop - I have to adapt it for gksu - and gksudo for ubuntuers -... I have to re-vamp a dialog to have a progress-bar..) This is for me an exercise in python, pygtk, bash sripting.

About the eeePC: It would be great to promote antiX usage on **netbooks**, in my opinion as a Mepis/full-Debian derivative. I would like to post on eeuser.com wiki (I was once a eeeXubuntu user on this forum). If I get time.. and help

Yves

I haven't had much time to try it.
I like it, runs fast and not much problems on a ridicolous piece of hardware, a 2gb sd card
which cost practically nothing. With all i need on this 'appliance' there is 5-600 mb free.
I've had once an I/O error on shutdown, after that I use shutdown -h or -r now from terminal and have not seen it.

Webcam seems to be dead even with Adam's ubuntu kernel.
Don't know if the wifi card works, seems to but i have no network to try it on as the univ net i'm on
is down because of downadup worm __{{emoticon}}__
Ethernet chip works.

I use huawei e 220, mobile net which works fine in umtsmon and with wvdial from terminal.

Actually I dont like to sit hours tinkering with this pc with 7' screen.. (i know i can hook it up to external)

But this setup is Perfect for my strictly low-end hardware (older 701 which I got for 180 euro on discount, 8 gb SSD)

I will try Adam's Intrepid kernel.

Do you know of a way to get the original package for the Xandros kernel?
If installed on a Debian system the initrd would get regenerated and then it might boot on a Debian system?


edit: tried today - wifi dead, no matter what kernel i use. tried with wicd. loaded the wifi module manually, no change.
Xandros found 5+ networks..

antiX is great, it must be doable to get the hardware working. Only thing I don't share Anti's preference for dark themes..

Here is how i put antix m8 on a usb flash drive:

I have another PC with mepis 7 running (but i figure it works with just the live distro of mepis 7 probably as well mepis 8, too). The Program (in the KDE Start menu tree) System->Mepis->Mepis System Assistant has a tab"Mepis usb key" there just follow the instructions and when it comes to"put in a Mepis CD" just put in an Antix CD, or mount an image before hand. It wrks fantastically. May be this part of the"Mepis System Assistant" can be included into Antix...

it is included in control center>system>configure system. i didn't try it, it's good to hear that it works.