I know – I haven’t written nerdy things in my blog for months; and I haven’t written any super-duper nerdy things in my blog for going on, er, years.

This, though, deserves recognition. I managed to shoehorn OpenSUSE 11.1 onto an eeePC 1000’s 32GB secondary (home) partition (I need more than the 8GB allocated to the first virtual IDE device, and wanted to save it from as much wear and tear as possible). I’ve setup an SD card as /home (globally disabled atime and used ext2, of course), managed to build a mostly-functional asusosd based upon the eee-osd code on Google, and even got MediaWrap reinstalled so I can listen to XM.

It didn’t take as much work as I was afraid it would; eeecontrol needed to be manually configured from a homemade 10.3 source package, but being that it’s a shell/perl script combo, that took seconds. asus_acpi and the pae kernel were a bit more problematic; it kept wanting to make an initrd without filesystem support.

But, I can do everything that I’m used to on my little eee now, and have my beloved complete KDE 3.5 back.