Install Fedora 9 on Eee PC (1000H).

It's finally arrived after a whole week. My black Eee PC 1000H. I have purchased online at AUD$655 with 2GB RAM incl. postage. I selected a shop offers of a ASUS 802.11n wireless router at $45 (rrp $120+), too.

Booted into XPH once and decided to wipe the whole HDD. No XP recovery then, who cares!? :)

Created Live CD image on USB pendrive and on the gnome desktop. Used livecd-inst-disk to install F9 on it. Since network card is not detected, google'd rt2860 chipset rpms:

- rt2860-1.7.0-2.lvn9.noarch.rpm
- kmod-rt2860-1.7.0-5.lvn9.2.i686.rpm
- kmod-rt2860-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-1.7.0-5.lvn9.2.i686.rpm

Started rpm -Uvh them, and finally need to get these installed in advance:

- kernel-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
- kernel-devel-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
- kernel-headers-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm

Done? The story hasn't been finished yet...

Let's do a yum update, omg, dependency conflicts on this *Fedora 9 GA Live CD*. Plugged in a supposed-broken USB external DVD drive and install from DVD. It does broke down once during installation. I take out the disc and cleaned it with my T-shirt.

I redo the 6 rpms above and network connection is functioning. It could yum update smoothly. Now I have sound (worked out box), LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB ext storage (worked out of box),

Will test more w/ built-in webcam and mplayer playback later.

In short, though it's bootable from USB pendrive, it's recommended to have ext dvd drive. Have network card rpm handy is also extremely important.