You're welcome, Neal - and thank you again for the helpful tip in the other thread, as well. The early EeePCs were somewhat of odd ducks for hardware, and many distros seemed to have issues with them at the time. The best fit I ever found was with Minime 08 - that install functioned very well, but has long since outlasted any modern compatibility - it cannot browse a significant number of important websites now (such as YouTube, for instance, amongst others), and it cannot be updated. I keep that old Eee handy mostly for the memories... for more than a year, it really was my 'main' machine! I have it completely imaged, so if I ever manage to trash anything I'm still able to restore the system entirely. It should last about as long as the actual hardware does, and it's already survived quite a surprising amount of abuse and disaster - the keyboard is starting to wear out, legibility-wise, but Deal Extreme is still selling replacements at very reasonable prices. I've already managed to completely burn out one SDHC card in that unit, yet the internal SSD still seems to be holding okay - and, it's also one of the very early ones, so it does have the second internal mini-PCIe SSD expansion slot connector, and I would be able to install a replacement module should the internal onboard SSD ever fail.
The only thing I didn't like about them was their crappy display resolution (and later, as I discovered, the fact that the internal mini-PCIe connector for the wifi module is BIOS-locked, so that only a useless wifi module may be installed into that port successfully.). I couldn't see the excuse for Asus not at least offering a higher-resolution screen for a premium price - not when a 1280 x 768 screen of the same size had already been sold some years earlier, in the Toshiba U-100 series. Those, and also the missing internal 56K analogue modem module, and the musing that the external SVGA connector could have been of so much greater use in my work had it only been a true serial port, instead. Asus missed a good opportunity on that one - I bought that EeePC for use as a service tool, and I was the service manager of a national ATM firm at the time. I wanted our company's field technicians to each have one, because they're small and rugged enough to survive being thrown into a toolbox; they could hold all firmware update files for every model of ATM machine in our fleet, and were capable of uploading same to same via serial connections (USB-serial dongle) or through CF cards (USB card reader on the PC side; CF-PCMCIA adapter on the ATM side); they'd run for two hours straight on a full charge, and automotive chargers are available; they play multimedia, such as training videos, and, they connect to the Internet too, through the magic of USB cellmodem dongles - so the techs could file their service reports straight into the corporate website, while still at the client's location! And the blasted things even have a silly little webcam, that could be used to take some really crappy evidence photos in cases of ATM damage or theft... I tell you; it all seemed so *ideal*.....
And then KDE changed. And then PCLinuxOS changed. And then there was an ulcer, and then my employment status changed, and then more recently a stroke... and now nothing is the same, and my EeePCs are sitting idle and are unused, because I am unable to run PCLinuxOS on them in the way that I really wish to. I can't even install 2010 to them successfully, now. It's all becoming rather depressing. The only machine I was able to get 2010 installed into successfully was my newer 701SD model, because it has an 8GB SSD so I didn't have to split the install across multiple drives - but now, even that install's not faring so well any longer, and so develops this booting problem....
Oh well. :-/
