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Eee PC: Revision 3
Here are my notes about setup of various stuff on Eee PC to make it work better for me.

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^ Startup

Edit `/usr/bin/startsimple.sh` and insert something along following lines before exec icewm

.pre
sudo rm /tmp/nologin

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
setxkbmap hr us
xterm &

exec icewm
.pre

^ Compressed root filesystem

I don't really care much about Xandos on my Eee PC. However, I really do like idea about having read-only system filesystem (especially if your startup scripts are breakable as easy as ones on eee are). So, to improve this idea, I started to think how to compress read-only partition so I can at least save space.

As a first experiment, I copied whole flash from eee (about 3.6Gb used) and compressed it using `gzip -1` (lowest possible compression level). I was quite amazed to see that resulting archive was only 1.3Gb. So, I was up to something (and additional 2Gb of free space on 4Gb eee is also nice :-)

Here is collection of references about this issue:

* http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Install_Debian_on_USB - I have one USB keychain installed like this and it works like a charm
* http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/