CrunchBang Linux Eee PC Howto

The installation instructions on this page relate to the standard version of CrunchBang Linux. There is also an Eee PC specific version of CrunchBang called CrunchEee. See the CrunchEee installation guide for more information.

The information on this page was produced by Fabian A. Scherschel. It details the steps Fabian followed in order to install CrunchBang Linux on his Eee PC 901. The original document can be found at: http://lamerk.org/resources/crunchbang-on-the-eee-pc

• Download the latest CrunchBang .iso
• Download and install the latest stable version of Unetbootin
• Mount a big enough USB drive (1 GB is plenty), formatted as FAT.
• Use Unetbootin to copy the .iso file to the drive (choose “Ubuntu” in the OS options and select the corresponding version to the CrunchBang version you are using)

• Insert the USB device into your Eee PC and press ESC immediately after pressing the Power On button, select the USB device in the boot option screen that comes up
• Install CrunchBang from the live environment as usual, with these exceptions (if you prefer):
  • Do not create a swap partition to prevent unnecessary wear and tear on the SSD drive (downside: disables hibernation)
  • I formatted the whole internal SSD (16 GB) as one partition and mounted that as /
  • And I also formatted an external 16 GB SD card as another partition and mounted that as /home
  • On the 901 It is best to put root on the 4GB disk (along with the efi partition- see below) and home on the 16GB internal card.
  • Note: if you want to enable the boot booster option (faster booting) then preserve or make the small EFI partition at the begining or the end of the disk you use for root. In the 901 this is the 4GB card.

• Install the eeepc-lean kernel from array.org following these instructions to enable full hardware support. Note: with #! 9.04 you should not need to use the special kernel from array as the latest generic kernel has incorporated all the necessary fixes.

• Go into System → Services/Daemons and uncheck the computer activity logger checkboxes
• Follow these instructions to mount the various tmp and log folders to RAM
• In Firefox, go to about:config, search for “cache” and set both online and offline cache options to 0