The Asus Eee Pc 701 has 4GB that is more than enough if you just want to surf the web, write a document, listen to music and what not; but sometimes you want to do a bit more. 4GB was enough to strip down Fedora, but always having to watch how much space you had left after each install and update got a bit annoying. That’s why I installed Fedora on an external drive instead, and this is how you can very easily do it too.
Keep in mind, this how-to focuses only on how to get your Eee Pc ready to boot Fedora from an external HDD on it. If you want to know how to install Fedora from A to B you should go here.
You need:
An Asus Eee Pc 701, of course
Fedora 10 on DVD (works out of the box)
An external HDD
An external DVD reader
How to do the magic:
Download the Fedora 10 DVD image and burn it on a DVD.
When you’ve done that you connect the external HDD and the external DVD reader to your Eee Pc and boot from the Fedora 10 DVD.
Just click thorugh the setting until you come to the Partition Setting Screen, and this is where the real magic happens.
Here you want to customize the partition table. Your partition setup should look like this:
sda – Eee Pc internal memory
[directory] – [file system] – [size]
/boot – ext3 – 4GB [min 100MB]
sdb – external HDD
[directory] – [file system] – [size]
/ – ext3 – 10GB
/home – ext3 – [as big as you want/need]
swap – swap – 1GB
Remember to force sda to be your primary partition.
After your partition setup looks like this, continue with the installation and enjoy your Eee Pc with a bigger drive.
Note: If you have any questions about this you can either post a comment or contact me via email.
A
19/07/2009
hello.
i want to make bootable my hdd in fc 7.0 OS so that, by power on my pc after booting and loading the OS ,the bash environment loads.
its important for me to have an embedded OS less than 50 Mb in size.
xen
19/07/2009
@A:
First of all, Fedora 11 is out, so I highly suggest you skip from FC 7 to Fedora 11.
If you just need bash, see to it that you’re not installing any window manager.
How to keep it below 50MB takes a bit of effort, so, if you need something that is about 50MB out of the box, go for the DSL distro.