Howto: Install Fedora 12 on an Asus EeePC 1000H; and save disk space.

As I was going to install Fedora 12 on my Asus EeePC 1000H, I booted up the Fedora 12 DVD with great excitement; which turned to great disappointment in a few seconds. What happened was that the Anaconda installer did not startup as expected; and I have to admit I have grown very fond off the Anaconda installer.

Being very tired that day I shot off a post on the Fedora Forum in hope to get this solved. And as you probably could see, I got the help I needed.
So with this simple howto I will let you know what I did to install Fedora 12 on my Asus EeePC 1000H; and saved a lot of disk space.

As this is a very brief explanation on how I did it, you are expected to be technical and known with Linux and how to install Fedora.

You need the following:

• 1 Asus EeePC 1000H
• 1 External DVD drive with USB connection
• 1 Fedora 12 LiveCD

Howto install Fedora 12 on your Asus EeePC 1000H:

1. Connect the external DVD drive to your 1000H, insert the Fedora 12 LiveCD in the drive and boot from the LiveCD
2. Double-click on the desktop icon called ‘Install to Hard Drive’ and follow the instructions.
3. When the LiveCD image has been installed to your 1000H, shutdown the computer, disconnect the DVD drive and boot up your computer.
4. Follow the post-install instructions on the screen.
5. Add the RPM Fusion repo(both free and non-free).
6. Open your terminal and execute the following command: su -c ‘yum -y install rt2860′
7. Reboot your 1000H so the wireless driver will get installed, and reboot again so it will work.
   (Do not ask why, but this is how it has always worked for me.)
8. Go to the Fedora Guide for some extra handy tips, but not necessary.
9. Enjoy your 1000H with Fedora 12.

But how do I save disk space?
After installing Fedora 12 on my own 1000H and then later adding all my other favourite crap to it I am “only” using 3.8 GB. Usually when I installed using the DVD and removing as much I could (trust me, I spent 15+ min to remove stuff I knew I would not need), but I still ended up with using about 5+ GB easy.

If you have any questions, you can post them below in the comments and I will do my best to answer them. I do advice you to consider doing this before asking me:

1. Search the Fedora Forum.
2. Search Google.
3. Ask politely on the Fedora Forum, and be descriptive about your problem.

Enjoy Fedora!

Note: You are also welcomed to come with suggestions about this howto; just keep in mind it is meant to be short and simple.