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Introduction

While currently, the recommended way to install is using our custom installer as described in ../../HowTo/Install, the custom installer is a minimal installer and is therefore missing some things that the standard installer includes. If you need crypto (LUKS), LVM or other support during the install, the standard installer will work to install a base system.

Select stable Lenny or weekly snapshot Squeeze installer

The current Lenny release candidate now supports both atl1e and atl2, so installing over ethernet should work on all models with these chipsets. If you have a newer model with atl1c ethernet, either install Squeeze over wifi with the weekly snapshot installer, or else do an install without a network (as per below but use the first DVD image instead of netinst image) and get the network working later with a kernel upgrade. For more details, see the wiki page for your ../../Model.

Preparation

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

  1. Download the Lenny 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 mirror

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

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

To install using a Squeeze weekly snapshot image (networking should work but may require manual config)

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

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

  1. Get boot.img.gz from the /hd-media from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz

  1. Using an empty USB device, do

zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX (where sdX is the device your USB media is using)

This will delete everything and leave a 256MB partition.

  1. Mount the USB device (i.e. /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdX1) and copy the netinstall ISO image from #1 to the newly created
    • partition. The ~170MB netinstall will fit. Confirm it copied to that partition or the install will fail.

See [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA] for manually configuring wireless.

Note: If the above links files aren't there just wait. The images must match otherwise the install won't find the ISO, you will get kernel mismatch problems, or it just won't boot.

Variation for Models without Networking

If the installer does not support wired or wireless networking (as is the case for the 1001HA) create a bootable USB device with enough space for the first debian install CD (not the net installer!) This should work with any large enough USB key already formatted as vfat.

  1. Mount the installer image using the local loop.

gunzip boot.img.gz
mount boot.img /mnt -o loop  # where /mnt is your chosen mount point
  1. Copy the contents of the boot image to your usb device along with your installation iso and a kernel image deb which does support your network devices.
  2. Unmount the USB drive
  3. Install syslinux on the USB drive

syslinux /dev/sdX # where /dev/sdX is your usb device
  1. Use fdisk to set the boot flag.

fdisk /dev/sdX   # use "a" to set boot flag and "w" to write

Once you have completed the basic installation, use "dpkg -i" to install the kernel deb that you put on the usb stick, reboot, configure your network and continue using aptitude as normal.

Installation

  1. Boot the eeePC using the USB device (press ESC during boot)
  2. Follow the installer instructions.

Installing wifi driver

  1. Add our repository and do an apt-get update after that.

  2. Install the appropriate wifi driver for your model. Consult the page for your model linked from ../../Models for details.

Configuration

After installing the base system and madwifi drivers, you will need to configure the system for wifi, webcam, hotkeys, etc. to work.