CrunchBang Linux Forums - CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-18T09:42:38Z

ajt wrote:

It is a good idea to install the mbr to the eee disk and not to the sd card.

why? i have a 900 and 1000 and prefer to leave the internal SSD untouched while experimenting with other operating systems (netbsd, openbsd, haiku, etc.)... the bootloader (grub) is installed onto SDHC media with a bootable first partition, and the eee BIOS is used to set drive boot priority - this seems to work quite well...

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-18T07:41:39Z

charliebrownau wrote:

This still doesn't actually get me into a install phase setup program
If I need an 'eee-control' extra thing why wasnt it built into the distro and enabled upon start up along with the card reader detected and enabled ?

Hello charliebrownau :)

Sorry to read you have been having installation troubles :( For what it is worth, eee-control is now included in the latest release. Also, every effort is being made to improve the documentation for installing CrunchEee, please bear with me.

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-18T05:00:34Z

This still doesn't actually get me into a install phase setup program

If I need an 'eee-control' extra thing why wasnt it built into the distro and enabled upon start up along with the card reader detected and enabled ?

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-18T00:47:33Z

A quick note - to install to sd card - you must have eee-control, card reader set to on . Then you can choose the sd card at the installation partition setting page.

It is a good idea to install the mbr to the eee disk and not to the sd card.

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-17T22:28:30Z

I have downloaded , burnt and booted the cruncheee 8.10.01.i386rc1.iso
to try out Crunch EEE on my Asus EEE 701 netbook.

Upon booting it I noticed it's missing "Install OS" choice in the menu
Loading the gui does not present a install onto SSD shortcut either .

I tired rebooting and typing INSTALL and [ENTER] instead of plain enter
its now loaded X without anything else on the black plain screen .

While it was in Live GUI mode it was using 25 to 29, avg 27 of CPU power.

Any trick to installing Crunch EEE using cruncheee 8.10.01.i386rc1.iso

Note: I don't have any extra SD or USB sticks connected, just the stock 4 gig built in SD drive
but I did Upgrade the RAM too 2 gig .

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-17T18:11:51Z

thanks! the md5 i was looking for on the 8.10.02 release (and recv'd) was:

9faf2d14f51042932d6b0c0136512693

so, now off to run http://aligunduz.org/FUSBi/

update:

installed on partition 1 of a spare thumb drive, and booted to the live session - pretty slick little (sub)distro!

i like that eee-control is present and ready on the desktop! there seems to be everything i'd need at the ready!

good job!

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-17T17:11:22Z

hi,
I have just installed cruncheee on the SSD of my 701 eeepc
Xorg is hogging 20-30% cpu even before any programs are launched
Anyone have any ideas? :S

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-17T16:09:09Z

linux_author wrote:

can someone please post the md5 for the cruncheee-8.10.02.i386.iso?
tia!

Hello linux_author :)

The new releases are having their documention written at the moment. See the 8.10.02 download page for more information and the new md5: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/downloads/8.10.02

P.S. Welcome to the forums :)

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-17T15:58:10Z

can someone please post the md5 for the cruncheee-8.10.02.i386.iso?

tia!

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-16T10:28:05Z

Hello!

New here - and i thought, post number 111 in this thread would be good to begin with. :cool:

So what did I want to say...

Thank you very much for Crunchee! Finally I dumped ole XP from my 901´s first SSD. Had been trying out fluxflux and Mandriva, with also work otb, but Cruncheee for me was the first Linux to deserve a place on sda1!

Added wbar for quickstart and lxpanel for having a nice menu (or was lxpanel in Crunchee by default???) and am a happy camper. :)

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-13T22:12:03Z

G'day,

just thought I'd mention the CrunchEee distro runs from usbstick on the Acer Aspire One as well.

I tried to install crunchbang a month ago onto usbstick using the cdrom iso & it would stall on boot, - unet - not - bootin.

Will explore some more.

- uncle

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-12T21:01:08Z

Just installed crunchee 8.10.01. Most things seem to work appropriate, except for the following:

On boot, no splashscreen is displayed, just the console text, on shutdown however the crunchbang splash is displayed.

I can not tell anything about the eeepc's hardware functions yet, first need to install eeepc-control

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-12T18:11:04Z

First off, just want to thank corenominal for Cruncheee. This is the first real Linux-based OS that I've truly enjoyed, learned about using on a regular basis, and have had on my machine for more than a week before thinking about going back to XP. All can be as expected, with scrolling and text entry having their occasional problems, although I think that's more down to the specs of the machine (early adopter of the 701) than the code itself.

I do have one problem though, and it's a bit of a trivial one, but for me, it's an issue. VLC will slip up while playing video files occasionally. I have a USB Hard Drive that has the files on them (converted from a laptop HDD), and when playing it occasionally skips, both with sound and video. There's a short blank spot (The last frame remains displayed), and a gap of audio before it goes on as if nothing happened, entirely skipping the section of video. It's not the video file, nor is it the EeePC at fault (all video files play fine on my desktop, and when my EeePC had XP on it, or Ubuntu Eee with VLC installed myself). So, something has to be interfering with it. The CPU is at 40-60% while playing the video, and I've upgraded the RAM to 2Gb. Is there a solution?

Thanks

EDIT: It's not Crunchbang at it's core. It's CrunchEEE. Installed Totem on CrunchEEE to double check, and the USB live version of Crunchbang works just fine.

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-12T17:36:37Z

Xeon Zombie wrote:

I have been using elmurato's scripts on my 1000HA with great success... does eee-control provide full support for the ACPI function keys, including the external display? Sorry for the noobish question, I have not had any experience w/eee-control to date.
If eee-control will work just as well as elmurato's ACPI scripts, then I will do a clean wipe and install !# tonight. More than likely the full version though, then just tailor it as needed.
- X.Z.

On my eeepc 900 all acpi keys quite as they should. some are even customizable.

Re: CrunchEee 8.10.01 Release Candidate 1

2009-01-12T13:59:47Z

Follow-up to my own question about the scheduler above:

#cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

reveals the active scheduler to be CFQ (completely fair queueing). I suggest everybody with a SSD uses deadline or even noop here to make use of the short seek times of the flash and get a generally more responsive system. Google for it, there are several ways: I suggest to change the "kopt"-line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to include elevator=deadline (or noop). Note: Keep the one(1) '#'.