Tuesday, 18 March 2008

The perfect way of using an EEE PC

This is a recipe for a serene usage of Asus EEE PC.

1. Follow the steps in http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:installrescuemode to install a rescue mode in grub.
2. Shut down.
3. Start up, press F9 repeatedly at the first screen, and go to rescue mode, as described in the url above.
4. In the terminal, type "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt-user" and hit enter. (Skip the mnt-system described in the url above. You do not need it for anything.)
5. In the terminal type "cd /mnt-user/home/user" and hit enter.
6. Use vi and be happy.

Limitations:
* You do not have any access to external networks or inserted SD cards.
* You have only a fraction of all the unix commands you thought you needed. No "less". No "chmod". No "vim", so you are stuck with a stripped down version of vi. \
* This version of vi does not appear to support word wraps, and it goes haywire at more than 256 characters per line. It does not display all possible settings when you type ":se all".

But so what? No one will never need more than 256 characters, as Bill Gates used to say (or wasn't it something like that?).

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