HOW TO: EEE PC Base Install on Asus Atom N270

PBX in a Flash Base Install on Asus eee Box B202(ebox)
eee Box - Intel Atom N270 1GB Ram 80 GB Hard Drive

After searching for several hours, I finally pieced together the following procedure, that worked for me.
I tried it a second time, just to be sure. I list it here, in the hope that it will save others some time.
I also want to try to get the WiFi working (for iPhone softphone to log into piaf) and the bluetooth for proximity detection. Let me know if you have already worked this out for your Eee Box.

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First, install the 32-bit version of PBX in a Flash with Asterisk 1.4.
Boot your system from the installation CD and type ksalt to begin.
You will get an error displayed after a few seconds of "Error unable to download kickstart.cfg", Select OK to install manually.
Select Keyboard
Select Time Zone
Select Root Password
Lots of files install from CD (install image is transferred to hard drive).
When your machine reboots, remove the CD as it is rebooting.
After r-e-b-o-o-t, menu is displayed.
Select Q for quit, to exit to CLI.
Username root
Password <previous root password you entered>
Type in piafxtras -menu
Select option C to install 8111b NIC. 8169 will be removed, and 8111b driver installed.
Machine will r-e-b-o-o-t. After r-e-b-o-o-t, menu is displayed.

Optional for Static IP
Select Q for quit, to exit to CLI.
Username root
Password <previous root password you entered>
Type in piafxtras -menu
Choose option B to load netconfig, to set static IP.
Machine will r-e-b-o-o-t. After r-e-b-o-o-t, menu is displayed.
Select Q for quit, to exit to CLI.
Username root
Password <previous root password you entered>
Type in netconfig and setup your static IP settings.
Back at CLI, type in r-e-b-o-o-t
Machine will r-e-b-o-o-t. After r-e-b-o-o-t, menu is displayed.
End of optional

Choose option A to load the most stable payload.
When the install completes, r-e-b-o-o-t your system once again and login as root with the password you chose when you built your system.

Now issue the following commands to bring your system current and protect your system passwords:
update-scripts
update-fixes
passwd-master

You now have a PBX in a Flash base install.
Takes 45-55 minutes.

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regards

Mark V

Eee Pc

I tried to install the atomic flash on one of these but couldn't get X Windows to run... I have since found out there are issues with the intel driver when using the supplied DVI-D to VGA adapter. (I don't have a monitor with DVI input.) Apparently it gets confuzed by the appearance of 2 vidieo adapters due to the use of the mobile chipset.

I'm sure it would be ideal as a headless PiAF system but I wanted to try out the Skype interface.

If anyone succeeds with this I'd like to hear about it.

Dallas

This is what I had to do on my new MSI Wind PC install.

Wish I had found this before I spent half a day screwing with it

Also, I don't know if it is even supposed to work this way but I tried using Mondo to pull over my old install but it would not work. Just kept saying that /dev/hda was not found at the start of installation.

I ended up doing a fresh install as per this thread. Then I installed anything that doesnt get installed through FreePBX (Unistim in my case).

Then I did a FreePBX backup from my old machine which I plugged back in. Went through webmin to pull the tar file of the backup. Then I created the folders on the new machine through webmin also and uploaded the backup file. Restored from that and was up and running.

Well... Just for fun I connected my Eee Box to an LCD display (Lenovo 19" wide screen) and bingo, up comes X Windows. (This is the Atomic Flash build.)
So I installed Skype... No luck here either, problems with audio capture and playback. Nothing seems to work properly. If I do get some sound the incoming audio is choppy and the playback of my audio on the echo test is unrecognisable. I googled and found a lot of people having trouble with Skype on FC10, I think I'll have to wait for Skype to release the next version for Linux.

Dallas

For installing Atomic Flash build, I installed xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.5.0-5.fc10.i386 which fixed a lot of things. You have to search for it, download and make a localinstall.

Hope this helps some of your problems

You may well be correct with this. I decided to nuke the installation with the Atomic flash USB drive and the BIOS won't boot from it. I then put in the mondo rescue DVD and now I'm getting
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: No such file or directory after the r-e-b-o-o-t.
It seems this is a know issue with FC10 so I have to fix this first. Oh well... it's a good learning experience.