Thanks!

I have a question. The changes i do when i have booted from the SD card are the still ther when i rebooted?

Can i get a Guid on how to do my own ubuntu eee SD card?

Why do you not prepare an ISO file specifically for direct installation onto an SD card that is down loadable for a donation of say $30? You would be able to do this by only allowing access to the code via a key e-mailed to purchasers. This would enable the end user to choose the size of the SD card and avoid Norwegian taxes. I have considered purchasing a card on e-bay but one cannot guarantee the quality of the installation.

Two things: 1)How do I fix the GRUB menu, or at least get it to default to the HDD, and 2)Can I get a couple of SD card stickers?

Whatever the answers, thanks for your work.

Ben

Let me know once this becomes available for purchase. I need to pay my dues for not providing coffee beans :)

Many thanks… for the TEAM WORK!

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There should be a script that installs it or you could choose to run from SD – whatever you want.

Other than that I think donating for gift is a good idea, but one should be able to choose only to donate and not get any SD card if one want that. I’d go for that option, since I download from the web anyway and all of my donation then would benefit Ubuntu-EEE.

./nalle.

Thank you for your great work!

Is it possible to make the card here? What is the trick to make the card?

I am also confused about “internal/external” card reader. Does it mean the card reader on the EeePC 901 right side is an internal or external?
Looking at the EeePC it is “internal”, considering that the SSD is in the box, than the right side is an external, …

The stickers is ALSO a brilliant idea. I LOVE stickers, and a little “Ubuntu EEE inside” sticker on my eee would look amazing.

What about a 20$-49$ donation for a gift of a few stickers and a 50$+ for the gift card.

I think you could get A lot of stickers pumped out for a good price, and people love stickers…. especially if they’re shiny.

I think $50 is a lot better. I dont believe everybody here in Brazil would buy it, but a lot may and will (myself included), but the points mentioned by Francesco are important, because not everyone will understand that donation plus gift is different from buying.

Bruno

@Xenon
Happy to help! Have you donated the 50 bucks yet? <— semi-joke ;)

@Dberg
Stickers – I hear you loud and clear! How about free sticker with your Ubuntu Eee SD card?

@Francesco Munafò
Great comment, thanks! Do you think it can be a problem connected with overclocking? Ubuntu Eee would have a hard time surviving a full callback / refund every card. That’s why I like the donate x and get a free card approach. Shipping is included in the price. Around the globe. Same price if you’re my neighbor and if you’re in Somalia. A padded envelope doesn’t cost too much

SDHC cards tend to be problematic on many Eees. Google around for “eee SDHC issues” or similar. It seems to depend on temperature, as they starts warming, some Eees start having problems writing (but also reading I am confident) to many SDHC card models.

I have installed eeeXubuntu, full Gutsy, and full Hardy on my 3 types of SDHC cards (4, 8 and 16GB, classes from c2 to c6!) and had problems with ALL of them. The same cards run ubuntus smoothly if inserted into an external USB reader (and when the Eee is cold), just to clarify that it’s not installation or OS problems.

That said, if you find a card that is tested to run smoothly on *all* the EeePcs, you’d do a double favour to all of us: 1st it is a SDHC tested to run smoothly, 2nd it has Ubuntu preinstalled. So double gain, double advantage. Id buy it instantly.

But.. what if people start complaining that their smooth and cool “OsOnCard” starts freezing when the computer gets warm? Can you afford having thousands of people returning you “defective” cards (actually their computers are defective not the cards, but can you explain it)?

So the idea is great, just be careful in choosing the type and have it tested around A LOT..

If I were you, I’d go for option 2, that might let also users choose different formats like 4GB/8GB. They pay x2 and you ship the right one. Or you may start with one format and then, as the costs fall down, you migrate to a larger card. In the middle users may choose both. With option 1, one day there will be one last user that donates 50$ and gets a 4GB and the following user donating 50$ will get an 8GB.. someone might get angry. Or you may stick forever with 4GB but someday someone might start thinking that 50$ for a small card is too much.

P.S. how will you handle shipping to .. hem.. for instance, let’s say Italy? You will ship to Italy, will you?

Francesco

Now compare the picture shown in your url with this one http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg_images/290/10393290.jpg and check the resemblances.

When I first saw the picture, I thought it resembled a product i had seen/had.

@Xenon
Sure you can! Here’s a quick how to:
1. Install Ubuntu Eee on the SD card
2. Install the custom kernel (http://www.array.org/ubuntu/) on the SD card and make sure it’s the default kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst
3. In bios, set the sd card as default start up location
Voila!

@victoria
Thinking about 4gb. Could probably fit it on a 2 gb card, but then there wouldn’t be any space for swap. With a 4gb card you’ll get swap and 1,5 gb more free space.

@Mika
We’re interested in discounts ;)

@Burno
Seems that you’re right! Sorry about that!
A SD card is about 15 $ * 2 is 30$, but with shipping it’s probably 40-50$, not a hundred bucks.
How do you feel about this price?

The idea seems good for improve donations with sales, but the price is not attractive…

I have a export trading company in china and sell SD cards to Europe and the US. If anyone can put orders to buy alot of them, we can get nice discount on them.