Now for the money shot: insert the USB stick into the Eee and power it on. This correlates exactly with the approximately 2.5Gb disk space consumed already on the 4Gb solid-state drive when you first boot the Eee. This is called P701L.gz and is 873Mb compressed inside is a single file called asus_2007.10.07_04.33.img which is 2,467,594,240 bytes uncompressed.
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Once the files are copied over, checking the USB stick in Windows shows that the GRUB boot loader has been installed, a 0 byte file indicating the build version (2007.10.07_04.33) and a gzip’d archive containing the disk image.
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Be careful not to click the badly worded “Retry” button too soon open Windows Explorer to make sure the USB drive has been re-detected by Windows before continuing, otherwise my experience was the program wouldn’t continue – no matter how many attempts you made to retry afterwards the only option was to cancel and restart. You are then prompted to remove the drive and re-insert it so Windows detects it again.
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Toolhelper was a two stage process first it formats the USB drive. Not to worry, it worked, and a bootable USB drive resulted which can restore the Eee to its pristine state at any time. Even so this wasn’t strictly troublefree if you’re not paying close attention the “Quit” and “Run” buttons are in the opposite areas to where you’d normally expect. Happily, Toolhelper.exe found within the Software\BootTool folder did work – and this let me copy the ASUS Eee 701 image to a USB stick (provided it is larger than 1Gb) and make it bootable. Running assetup.exe in the bin directory did nothing. Double-clicking setup.exe on the disc’s root did nothing.
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This may be a fault of the software or it may be a problem due to the Windows Vista system I used, but the disc’s autorun did nothing. Secondly, the support disc doesn’t work as well as advertised. The first snag with the support DVD is it needs a Windows PC you can’t run its apps on another Linux system or a Mac.
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Obviously, the Eee doesn’t have its own optical disc and nor does it run Windows anyway (out of the box, at least, but ASUS provide Windows XP drivers so anyone can do so if they choose.)
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The guide promises the existence of a tool to make a bootable recovery USB floppy disk. An ASUS support DVD is provided, loaded with Windows drivers and tools. Nevertheless, time to turn the clock back. This raises an interesting question for someone more legally-minded than I: what is the standing of an end-user license which has not been accepted by the end user, because they were never presented with it? Presumably, the Myer store turned the Eee on, themself, at some time – and went through the wizard, entering a username (they opted for brevity, entering the ever so subtle “m”) and – get this – accepting the EULA before on-selling it. Yet, the instructional guide accompanying the unit says there should actually have been a first-time setup wizard. Last time, I reported my Eee booted into its bold iconic interface straight away there was no login prompt or EULA.