EEE PC 900 Linux Recovery Disk

XDA · 16-07-2008 10:56am #1

Hi lads

i've lost my Asus EEE PC 900 Linux recovery disk. Does anyone have one that they could copy and send to me ? I will of course cover the cost of the disk and postage.

If you can help I'd be very grateful.

Regards

XDA

Stamen · 16-07-2008 2:58pm

Check your PMs.

qwertz · 16-07-2008 3:34pm

Is there such a thing as a Windows recovery disk as well?

XDA · 16-07-2008 3:51pm

Yes, the ones which ship with XP come with an XP Recovery disk (its actually a DVD i believe). Ironically, if you're not too concerned about copyright etc, you can find torrents for those if you do a bit of looking ...

XDA

rinnin · 01-11-2008 1:20pm

Sorry for hoppin in on this guys but thinking of getting an EEE PC (900) for my Ma for the kitchen.
How do you do a restore / recovery on these if there's no CD drive?
The whole house are MacUsers so wouldnt be able to link to a Windows machine if thats required.
Many thanks

qwertz · 01-11-2008 2:46pm

This might help:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1888

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=49370

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb

rinnin · 01-11-2008 5:24pm

Thanks qwertz but I'd be wanting to restore the original Linux software onto it from a Mac.
Looks like will have to go buy an external CD-ROM then? :rolleyes:

qwertz · 01-11-2008 7:54pm

Do you have a desktop PC?

Edit: Sorry, just saw the Mac bit. It might be more economic to buy an external 5.25" enclosure and "borrow" a DVD drive from one of the Macs.

biologikal · 01-11-2008 8:21pm

rinnin wrote: »

Thanks qwertz but I'd be wanting to restore the original Linux software onto it from a Mac.
Looks like will have to go buy an external CD-ROM then? :rolleyes:

Will the Mac not read the disk you have the original Linux software on or USB stick? If it does, I can't see why adapting the information the 3rd link qwertz gave you wouldn't work.

Ron DMC · 03-11-2008 5:35pm

It's a simple method of copying the content from the cd onto a usb or sd card, then make sure that media is bootable in the BIOS.

Bingo, it'll work just like a CD-ROM would.

biologikal · 03-11-2008 6:22pm

From what I've been reading, just copying the files from a CD-ROM unto an SD card, and making the PC SD-bootable isn't enough. The card has to have a bootsector area, which requires a utility to create, like the HP bootable flash utility I see referred to a lot.

There is a lot of information easily gotten through google. It's not something I need, so I haven't delved deeper, but it looks simple enough (may be complicated by the user above having a Mac though). The links qwertz gave above are good starting points for anyone wanting to do it.

EEE PC 900 Linux Recovery Disk

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