Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw wrote: > Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little > about it, but that will change over the next few days. > > > > I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been > around, and thus, was very stable and

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek >> wrote: >> >> >> >> [snip] >> > >> > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling >> filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out faster. >>  Although, I did read o

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw wrote: > Patrick Bartek > wrote: > >> > >> [snip] > > > > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling > filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out faster. >  Although, I did read one article where the writer actually > crunched numbers, and conclud

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling > filesystem like ext3 on SSDs.  It wears them out > faster.  Although, I did read one article where the > writer actually crunched numbers, an

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Shaw
Sorry gmail defaulted to replying to Robert instead of the list... On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 11/19/2010 09:09 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> I still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with the SSD >> option and it seems to work well. > > What is BTRFS?

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2010 09:09 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I still have F13 installed on mine but I used BTRFS with the SSD > option and it seems to work well. What is BTRFS? > I'm probably going to stick with F13 > since it works well enough and the update cycle should slow down. > Doing a lot of updates

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth >> wrote: >> >     I have F14 installed and running on >> an EeePC 701 -- the earliest >> > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. >> > >> >> I also have an EeePC

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling filesystem like ext3 on > SSDs. It wears them out faster. Although, I did read one article where the > writer actually crunched numbers, and concluded that SSDs made within the > past couple o

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth > wrote: > >     I have F14 installed and running on > an EeePC 701 -- the earliest > > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > >    > > I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD > drive. > > > First you

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth wrote: > I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD drive. First you can't do a graphics install on this with F14, as it is really only 50

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > > It's not at all clear to me how one would go about > installing f13 or  f14 > > (or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig device. > You may have  better > > luck if you can stick an 8 gig (or bigger) SDHC card > in the SDHC  card > > reader,

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-18 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: fred smith > To: Community support for Fedora users > Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 1:16:59 PM > Subject: Re: Making space on an EeePC > It's not at all clear to me how one would go about installing f13 or f14 > (or anything else simi

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-12 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
I have also an EeePC 701 with 4G SDD, and I'm currently planning an customised openbox version of Fedora. If somebody has interest please contact with me, and let's discuss about the needs - and so on. Waht do you say guys? Cheers, Zoltan 2010/11/12 Andrew Haley : > On 11/12/2010 04:38 PM, fred

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/12/2010 04:38 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:41:33AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 11/11/2010 07:16 PM, fred smith wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:58:03AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> >>> FWIW, I am currently running F13 on a eeepc 901 which, admittedly, has >>> A L

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-12 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:41:33AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 11/11/2010 07:16 PM, fred smith wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:58:03AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > > FWIW, I am currently running F13 on a eeepc 901 which, admittedly, has > > A LOT more "disk" space,... a 4 gig and a 16 gi

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-12 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/11/2010 07:16 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:58:03AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > > FWIW, I am currently running F13 on a eeepc 901 which, admittedly, has > A LOT more "disk" space,... a 4 gig and a 16 gig SSD. Normal Gnome > install, though made from the LIVE cd, and tweaked

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Beartooth wrote: >     I have F14 installed and running on an > EeePC 701 -- the earliest > smallest slowest EeePC afaik. > >     It boots and it runs. But it's not > usable yet; for one thing, > when I set it to boot, I then have to check every > quarter-hour or two to

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joe Zeff wrote: > I suspect that you simply don't have > a big enough, fast enough computer for Fedora, especially with Gnome or > KDE adding their requirements to the base system. I'm running Fedora-13/KDE on the same machine - EeePC 4G 701 - and it runs fine. I increased the RAM to 2GB, and als

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Andras Simon
On 11/11/10, Richard Shaw wrote: > I don't know that the older 700 series are upgradeable. They are. I have one 701 with 4G SSD with F11 on it, and another with F12. Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > On 11/11/2010 02:16 PM, fred smith wrote: >> FWIW, I am currently running F13 on a eeepc 901 which, admittedly, has >> A LOT more "disk" space,... a 4 gig and a 16 gig SSD. Normal Gnome >> install, though made from the LIVE cd, and

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 11/11/2010 02:16 PM, fred smith wrote: > FWIW, I am currently running F13 on a eeepc 901 which, admittedly, has > A LOT more "disk" space,... a 4 gig and a 16 gig SSD. Normal Gnome > install, though made from the LIVE cd, and tweaked a little due to the > smallness of the root ssd. You can repl

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:58:03AM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/11/2010 10:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > According to baobab, the biggest thing still left in the whole > > filesystem is /usr/share/locale. (I cut out apps utterly ruthlessly while > > installing.) > > > > Can I simply delete

Re: Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/11/2010 10:35 AM, Beartooth wrote: > According to baobab, the biggest thing still left in the whole > filesystem is /usr/share/locale. (I cut out apps utterly ruthlessly while > installing.) > > Can I simply delete all of /usr/share/locale, or all but one of > the folders in it??

Making space on an EeePC

2010-11-11 Thread Beartooth
I have F14 installed and running on an EeePC 701 -- the earliest smallest slowest EeePC afaik. It boots and it runs. But it's not usable yet; for one thing, when I set it to boot, I then have to check every quarter-hour or two to see if it has finished yet Accordi