Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I am in a hotel, not at home, and then realize the eeePC 900 is full, space 0.00 MB!

As a result, I guess, my browser does not retain anything, not even the backup page button, runs only 1 web page at a time. painful.

I am not at home, and dont have any system disk. If anybody is good at linux, knows a bit about the eeePC, can you teach me, step by step please, to gain some space, so that I can use this little thing while I am traveling? like how to delete some apps or document to gain a few mb space.... I hope it still goes xterm, :(

I think this is a 4G/16G model, and with 1.47G program/system space. And now
whatever it is , program installed 1.47 G :( ; very funny

Oh sure, I am also bring with me a real good powerful laptop, my N900 ... yake


bun

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

If you run a Debian-like environment (ubuntu, UNR, debian itself or any other magic debianish thingie) run
as superuser.
for example.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

Open a term and type ls. You may find a Downloads directory with stuff that was downloaded but is not being used.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

OMG, it worked! Thank you! Boy, I was running one website at a time, and have to erase it in order to go to 2nd website. Try it, it was NOT much fun. I did the sudo apt-get clean, whatever it is, my eeePC is NOW back to normal. I know there is going to be some kind guru in this forum.

And thanks for geneven's suggestion. I guess I would try it next time. Oh, now I can really really surg.... ha ha.

bun

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

You probably have an Application Manager type program such as Synaptic that will make it easy to remove programs you don't want.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

grab a SD card or a usb stick and put files on it.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

Well, now the problem is solved, I have more happy mood to talk about it.

Just like any equipment, one has to learn to make it work for you.

I got the eeePC at the same time I got my N810. I Loved the N810 so much, I flipped the eeePC on, ONCE, and has since never touch it. Just before the trip, I grapped my N900, and kind of grapped 'something' just in case I may need a bigger screen.
And the eeePC happened to be in front of me, I flipped it on, OS and everything remained 2008. So, I did like everything I touch, knee jerk, xterm>synaptic>update ALL. And I think I see 179 apps and as well as several OS update.............I hit update all, and that is where the problem, it used up all the system space, I guess and leave me with nothing. I know, it is my careless and there is the reason.

Thanks everybody, now I have 300 MB spavce and the eeePC is working. and my SSD drive has 16 G space, not even 1 file used :)

Apparantly they have 1.47 G of pgm space, sort of like the N900 rootfs space.


Bottomline, it is NOT file space, it is the pgm space, and MY idiocity.

bun

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

ah, its still running the xandros.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I was afraid of that (xandros). You might consider installing ubuntu or Linux Mint or some other OS recommended at

http://forum/eeeuser.com

Xandros has a bad reputation.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I can heartily recommend Linux Mint. I installed it on my Samsung NC10 a couple of years ago after trying out a good number of so-called "netbook distros". Like it so much I also have it as double-boot on my desktop. Very user-friendly and hassle-free.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I've used it lots on several computers, especially my eee 1000h, and it has never let me down.

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I am waiting in the airport, will take a good look at mint once home.

anyway, N900 currently does not have much goin on :)

I did make a ubuntu boot on a finger flash drive in the past and it has been working forever.

As I alluded to in earlier post, I did not learn too much about the eeePC and there is thus some phobia. I installing mint is NOT like installing mer on N8x0 :


bun

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

I would also advise to install Ubuntu. Default install of Xandros on eee is rather strangely configured - new versions of software do not replace old versions, but are installed on the side, which means that updates take much more space than they should.

I had (still have, but am not using it much lately) eee701 and after installing Ubuntu it was very good machine (I also upgraded memory to 2GB and was able to run Eclipse 3.5 on it - but limited screen size made it rather unpleasent to use).

Re: Help: eeePC 900 run out of space...
 

Much simpler actually :-)

Mint is in fact based on Ubuntu, so you should be on familiar territory...