resources:crunchbang-on-the-eee-pc [LaMerk Industries]

These are the steps I followed to install CrunchBang Linux on my Eee PC 901:

Preparing the installation medium

Download the latest CrunchBang .iso
Download and install the latest stable version of Unetbootin
Mount a big enough USB drive (1 GB is plenty)
Use Unetbootin to copy the .iso file to the drive (choose “Ubuntu” in the OS options and select the corresponding version to the CrunchBang version you are using)

Insert the USB device into your Eee PC and press ESC immediately after pressing the Power On button, select the USB device in the boot option screen that comes up
Install CrunchBang from the live environment as usual, with these exceptions (if you prefer):
- Do not create a swap partition to prevent unnecessary wear and tear on the SSD drive (downside: disables hibernation)
- I formatted the whole internal SSD (16 GB) as one partition and mounted that as /
- And I also formatted an external 16 GB SD card as another partition and mounted that as /home
Install the eeepc-lean kernel from array.org following these instructions to enable full hardware support

Go into System → Services/Daemons and uncheck the computer activity logger checkboxes
Follow these instructions to mount the various tmp and log folders to RAM
In Firefox, go to about:config, search for “cache” and set both online and offline cache options to 0