From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MoKGe-0000hs-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:55:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0301E0618; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DA3E0618 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 09545B52C8 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:55:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:55:29 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H Message-ID: <20090917175529.00e4da72@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200909171339.09971.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs34 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/B7MLBYG6N3nzb_C97XvPQtu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: cc987b58-a2bb-4f26-9142-a531ca584d33 X-Archives-Hash: b415dba6584fd407e4c006e5708981c9 --Sig_/B7MLBYG6N3nzb_C97XvPQtu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:50:08 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: > A basic thing to check - make sure your BIOS is set to boot the > removable device before the internal HDD - you have to do this with the > USB stick inserted, and (if the 1000H is anything like the 900A), it > will revert to internal HDD first any time you boot w/o the USB stick > inserted. There's no need to change the BIOS, press Esc during POST to get a boot menu. System Rescue CD is a good choice for installing Gentoo, and is easy to transfer to a bootable USB stick. --=20 Neil Bothwick OS/2 =3D Half an Operating System --Sig_/B7MLBYG6N3nzb_C97XvPQtu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqyagYACgkQum4al0N1GQMsBQCeOBr2qFGR9l9HUp89LfxqTXGb 9MwAoK9HsT0GD3oF9y1D2WL4kMxIHm81 =DWUE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/B7MLBYG6N3nzb_C97XvPQtu--