On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:04:16PM EDT, Greg Norris wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > > Most eeepc seem to be well supported and some have a good battery > > life. nc10 seems good but it's not cheap nor friendly. dell mini 9 is > > really cheap but has little battery and bradcom wifi. So... what would > > you recommend? > > I'm using an Eee PC 901 right now, although it's running Ubuntu 9.04 > (Netbook Remix) rather than Debian proper... works beautifully, and is > currently priced at about $280. I made the following (mostly minor) > tweaks: > > * Upgraded the memory to 2 GB (max supported), which has a current cost > of approximately $26. > > * Joined /dev/sda and /dev/sdb (internal SSD storage) into a LVM volume > group, except for a small /boot filesystem, and host / and swap there. > > * My /home resides on a 16 GB SD card, to allow for easy removal if I ever > need to leave the netbook unattended. I'll likely encrypt it as well in > the future, but don't have time to work through the configuration at > present. > > The only problem I've encountered is that the SD card isn't always finished > initializing when the filesystems get mounted, so sometimes /home isn't > available... this only occurs when booting under battery power. My current > workaround was to add the following lines to /etc/rc.local: > > # mount /home, if not already present, since the SD card may not be stable > # during the early boot process > if [ "`mount | grep -c ' on /home '`" -eq 0 ]; then > logger -t rc.local "mounting /home at `date`" > mount /home > fi > > I'll revist this issue once I determine a more appropriate fix. Apparently > it's not just a Ubuntu/Debian issue, however. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/329788/
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