My advice is to make a backup of ALL OF YOUR DEVICES you are going to use before to perform any operation, even if you are going to install FreeBSD on a USB stick make a backup of your Hard-Disk! Procedures listed in this guide should require root privileges this tutorial covers installations for Windows XP and Linux systems: exclusive steps for Windows begin with –Windows, and the Linux ones with –Linux, they both end with a – -// finaleīecause of the excessive number of Linux distros out there and the great diversity among them, all the Linux steps written here are to be executed from a terminal.when a step refers to a particular configuration between the two listed above, you will see or.installing on a USB stick (I don’t recommend using an SD Card as I experienced very bad performance, anyway USB is faster).installing on SSD (or Hard Disk) supplied with our Eee PC (I recommend to use the whole disk, 4GB is too small for a dual boot :/).Throughout the guide I will explain both of them: Here follows a list of possible configurations to install FreeBSD, you can choose from one of them what more fits with your needs. The steps are almost identical, the only difference is how FreeBSD will name devices during the installation process or the keys to enter the BIOS configuration utility at startup. ?īesides, I want to make the point that this tutorial is still easily fitting to other netbook models that, just like the Eee PC 701, are not supplied with a CD/DVD drive.
What you can find on the net is some installation howtos for Windows XP and Linux, but it won’t be easy to find out how to install a BSD system ( apart from a collection of failures at ? ), so I decided to write this step by step tutorial which will guide you through the installation of FreeBSD on an ASUS Eee PC 701 (4G) from USB drive, hope this helps all of you who already tried or want to try this “challenge”….at the end you will realize that this is not so difficult as it seems, you have just to know where to put your hands. I’m actually writing from my last purchase the ASUS EeePC 701, a real jewel with a good support for Linux and BSD systems.