I used a USB stick and dd for Windows (I’m sure dd for Linux would work just as well)

From the Windows Comand Prompt:

C:\>dd if=mini.img od=x: (Where X is the drive letter of the USB stick)

Then just insert the USB stick before loading your Linux Installation Media.

you should get results like this:

[root@esx-mars root]# hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads:  358 MB in  3.00 seconds = 119.33 MB/sec

This is from a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with the PERC 5i SATA RAID Controller.

Roughly you want to see 50 MB+ per disk, if you have a RAID 0 of two disks you should get 100 MB+.

What numbers are your getting?

Some quick thoughts

• The packaging is awesome
• The hardware design is top notch
• The software looks great
• Has the best font rendering I’ve ever seen
• Adobe Flash isn’t working
• The processor is too slow

I’ll take some pictures tomorrow!

I wanted a flash based player with at least 8GB on-board and a MicroSD (SDHC) slot that was as attractive as the 5G iPod.  I found a great looking player in the Sansa View and the 16GB model was a great price at $200.  It was a little hard to find but after a week of looking I got one straight from SanDisk.

It had some problems reading my ID3 tags from some of my music but they released firmware 1.06 which corrected the problem.

The other problem was mounting it in Linux.  Normally when you connect it to USB it’s using the MTP Media Transfer Protocol (should be called Microsoft Transfer Protocol) which of course doesn’t work under Linux.

But by holding down the left arrow when you connect it will use the standard USB Mass Storage Protocol MSC Mass Storage Class (sometimes referred to as UMS) and mount as a normal drive.  Then you can just drag and drop your music folders and all is good in the world.

Bottom line, it’s a nice player that should work with any OS and let’s you easily backup your music.   The forums over at Any Thing But iPod where very helpful.

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For end users this means installing another version of Linux on the EEE will give you lower battery life.  If/when Asus  releases the source you (or your favorite distribution) would be able to compile the Asus ACPI code and get the same battery life as you did with the default OS that ships on the EEE.

ACPI has been a major problem on Linux for sometime.  Microsoft  has made ACPI more difficult than it needs to be in order to slow the adoption of Linux.

Let’s hope Asus releases the code ASAP and we can write a HOWTO on installing in under different distros.

Intel signed on in February. Then, having committed money and manpower to the project, Intel told Shih and Shen that it wanted to see a prototype in one month. “When I heard that,” laughs Shen, “I told Jonney, ‘We’ve got nothing yet!’” Designers and engineers endured sleepless nights and long weekends and managed to put together the basics of the machine in time. Folks at Intel started calling it the Jonney machine.

A bigger hurdle was designing the user interface, the first thing people see when they turn on the machine, and the screens that lead to the programs. Asustek decided that the Windows operating system was out of the question. The licensing costs would have been the most expensive part of the computer. So it decided to use Linux and build its own user interface, and that became the most time-consuming part of the project.

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