Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Richard Benfield wrote:
>>> I was wondering, Does the bios let you boot from an SD card? If it does you 
>>> could
>>> buy a relatively cheap 8G SDHC card and but windows on that for when you 
>>> need it.
> 
> Yes, you can boot from an SD card on the Eee, or even a USB hard drive. What 
> you can't do is disable the solid-state drive, so if you want to install 
> Windows, it has to go on the SSD.

I have no EeePC, but I have heard it runs eComStation(OS/2 Warp) very 
well (and installed on the built-in drive). See some videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6zgGhI8tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD_lgUbEXNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sGBxhPZReE


RU12 wrote:
> If you go to the EEE Forum at:
> http://forum.eeeuser.com/index.php
> 
> you will find many users have XP installed on an SDHC card, but with mixed
> results. Some claim that the system is extremely slow.

According to the comments on the videos it is quite fast with eComStation.

Regards, Rob.


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