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MeeGo Linux on Asus EeePC 900A

I am by no stretch of the imagination a Linux guru. I am functional with the power of Google and an aptitude for quickly acquiring new skills and that's about it. When I picked up a netbook for cheap, I thought I'd try out a few of the Linux netbook distributions to see if I could get the max use out of it possible. After experimenting with Jolicloud, EasyPeasy, Moblin, and MeeGo, I've chosen MeeGo as the best for my taste as it is lightweight, fast, attractively designed, and seems to be very user friendly. I had a little trouble getting it to boot properly on my Asus 900A and was unable to find any documentation on how to really get this up and running, but with the help of a friendly IRC'er by the name of thewanderer1, I'm up and running. The problem : The Asus EeePC 900A, even with the latest BIOS, does not recognize USB mass storage devices as removable devices, but as hard disk drives themselves. For this reason, after byte-copying the live install image to my