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Introduction

While currently, the recommended way to install is using our custom installer as described in [:DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install], the custom installer is a minimal installer and is therefore missing some things that the standard installer includes. If you need accessibility support, crypto (LUKS), LVM or other support during the install, the standard installer will work to install a base system, but the network won't work during the install, so that will need to be installed separately.

Select daily or beta2 installer

If you opt to use one of the daily built images instead of Lenny beta2, then atl1e and atl2 will work so that you do not need to do any of the extra steps below relating to installing the ethernet drivers separately. Check the status of the dailies first for any known issues before using the daily images:

* http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

The rest of this guide is written assuming you are not using one of the dailies. It will be updated when atl1e and atl2 are present in a future debian-installer beta or release candidate.

Preparation

To install a Lenny (testing) system using the standard installer, you need to do the following:

  1. Download the netinst ISO image from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

  2. Get boot.img.gz from /debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media from your favorite Debian [http://www.debian.org/mirror/list mirror]

  3. Get the atl2 module packages and the required new linux-image packages for the kernel to be installed from a Debian [http://www.debian.org/mirror/list mirror]: [http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/atl2-modules-2.6-686/download atl2-modules-2.6-686] [http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/atl2-modules-2.6.26-1-686/download atl2-modules-2.6.26-1-686] [http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/linux-image-2.6-686/download linux-image-2.6-686] [http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/download linux-image-2.6.26-1-686] (or another version of your choice).

  4. Using an empty USB device, do zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX (where sdX is the device your USB media is using)

  5. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the ISO image and the packages to it

Installation

  1. Boot the eeePC using the USB device (press ESC during boot)
  2. Follow the installer instructions (it will not find a network device during installation, but so be it for the moment) When you are asked to select a mirror, do not select any, but select "Go Back".
  3. reboot into the freshly installed base system
  4. mount the USB device (mount /dev/sdc /mnt, for example)
  5. Install the linux-image packages: dpkg -i /mnt/linux-image-*.deb
  6. Install the atl2 packages: dpkg -i /mnt/atl2*.deb
  7. Edit /etc/modules to include atl2: echo 'atl2' >> /etc/modules

  8. Reboot into the newly installed kernel
  9. You should now have a working eth0 interface. You have to add a repository mirror by editing /etc/apt/sources.list
  10. You can now continue the installation over the network

Installing madwifi driver

The madwifi driver from standard Debian will not work on the Eee PC. You will have to build it from the source package in our [:DebianEeePC/Repository:repository].

  1. Remove any old madwifi-modules, if you have already installed them.
  2. Add our [:DebianEeePC/Repository:repository] and do an apt-get update after that.

  3. Install the module-assistant package.
  4. Now do m-a a-i madwifi-eeepc to build and install the modules.

Configuration

After installing the base system and madwifi drivers, you will need to [:DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure:configure] the system for wifi, webcam, hotkeys, etc. to work.