using an Eee pc

Kanifee · 28 Oct 2008 at 23:07

A friend has brought me a Eee pc and tmobile internet anywhere dongle, he wants me to install and get up and running the internet on his new shiny little laptop, little did he know that the O.S sucks ****.
Im a native windows man, never messed on with linux or osx so asus Eee os seems a fart on for nothing, my inability to locate the usb drive to execute the onboard software is very irritating to say the least, any one who can help is most welcome indeed!!!!

Ross1234 · 28 Oct 2008 at 23:09

give it a chance!
look on the eeeuser wiki that has a lot of stuff.
Look in file manager under D: o E: in home. taht should help

benjo · 28 Oct 2008 at 23:11

Or rip Linux off and put XP Fundamentals on? Is what my friend did

Ross1234 · 28 Oct 2008 at 23:14

benjo said:
Or rip Linux off and put XP Fundamentals on? Is what my friend did

takes ages to start up though.

if you put on the advanced desktop mode its much better.

iamTakeo · 29 Oct 2008 at 00:17

get an IDE to USB converter and attach your cdrom drive, install xp, or smaller custom xp iso's.

dun · 29 Oct 2008 at 02:02

Ross1234 said:
takes ages to start up though.

if you put on the advanced desktop mode its much better.

My 701 doesn't take ages to start up :confused:

Stick Xp on it, you know it makes sense.

Kanifee · 29 Oct 2008 at 09:16

is it going to be possible to install this software without changing the operating system?

fini · 29 Oct 2008 at 09:18

dun said:
My 701 doesn't take ages to start up
Stick Xp on it, you know it makes sense.

neither does mine - and I don't have the shiny Atom based one. In fact, with the SSD, its decidedly fast in to booting in to windows.

Kanifee · 29 Oct 2008 at 10:04

ok, got it up and running after a little bit of googling and it wasnt too much of a problem, suppose once you get used to a different way of doing things the os aint too bad though i wouldnt want it installed onto my pc!!!!

my impressions of the eee pc is about the same as the os, not a great fan but it does what its supposed to and if you need something small and mobile it's just the trick. i would have thought though that something that is posted as mobile and for on the move, a gsm sim slot and the relavant hardware would have been built into the unit, or is this something featured in later models?

Any way, alls well that ends well and it isnt me that has to use it so happy days!!!

GeForce · 30 Oct 2008 at 11:47

I've got Fundamentals on my EEE 701. Takes about 20 seconds to start up

Tracker · 30 Oct 2008 at 22:56

I have tried quite a lot of different ditros on my eee but the best so far is eeeubuntu. Mico xp runs quite well on it as well.

Memphis · 31 Oct 2008 at 00:16

damian666 said:
A friend has brought me a Eee pc and tmobile internet anywhere dongle, he wants me to install and get up and running the internet on his new shiny little laptop, little did he know that the O.S sucks ****.
Im a native windows man, never messed on with linux or osx so asus Eee os seems a fart on for nothing, my inability to locate the usb drive to execute the onboard software is very irritating to say the least, any one who can help is most welcome indeed!!!!

Just because you can't use it, does not by any remote stretch of the imagination mean the OS "sucks".

Ross1234 · 31 Oct 2008 at 00:20

fini said:
neither does mine - and I don't have the shiny Atom based one. In fact, with the SSD, its decidedly fast in to booting in to windows.

I mean compared to xandros's 20 seconds not compared to a normal pc. I found the xandros operating system very good as it was light and suited to my needs.

OspreyO · 31 Oct 2008 at 12:50

GeForce said:
I've got Fundamentals on my EEE 701. Takes about 20 seconds to start up

What is Fundamentals?

fini · 1 Nov 2008 at 11:46

Don't use Fundamentals - it's a stripped down version of windows and is completely unnecessary for the eeepc - which runs XP Professional nice and quickly.