Edited out my mac addys. Even my broadcom worked out of the box! :)
*edit* I don't see my memory listed (inxi -F). I have 2x2gb sticks. This was an old laptop from work I took since I didn't have one at home. Flies now.
I would like to report a successful install of LXLE 14.04.3 on an Asus eee901 netbook. Everything works I think, though I'm still fussing with Bluetooth. This computer has two solid state drives. The install was done from a 4 gig SD card prepared with unetbootin.
I used Logical Volume Manager to bond the two drives into a single large root partition. There were several failures. I discovered that GRUB would NOT boot directly from an LVM partition so had to do the whole thing over, creating a conventional partition for boot files.
Partitions on my two eee flash drives were created with gparted. The four gig drive has a 400 meg ext3 partition as sda1 which will be /boot, and a 3.4 gig sda2 formatted as lvm-pv. The sixteen gig drive has a 14.6 gig lvm-pv partition as sdb1 and the remainder as sdb2 designated as swap space. That's as far as gparted can go in setting up Logical Volume Manager. The rest of the process had to be done from a shell prompt. I've pasted in a lot of the command lines here, hope it helps someone.
Here is creating a single Volume Group spanning the two Physical Volumes:
root@qwerty:/dev# vgcreate eee901 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 Volume group "eee901" successfully created
This shows the new Volume Group:
root@qwerty:/dev# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name eee901 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 2 Metadata Sequence No 1 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 17.62 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 4510 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 4510 / 17.62 GiB VG UUID UCWmTv-iqbl-aif9-2kUo-l9V5-DS25-8xwrQB
This shows the two Physical Volumes created with gparted:
root@qwerty:/dev# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name eee901 PV Size 3.37 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 861 Free PE 861 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID hs5hrm-5Twk-GJ23-QCWT-bEoj-Hb49-5Wal1A
--- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sdb1 VG Name eee901 PV Size 14.26 GiB / not usable 4.00 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 3649 Free PE 3649 Allocated PE 0 PV UUID ee9DXN-nZ2Q-stYD-fJo2-WYrz-chjM-k4NNY7
root@qwerty:/dev# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/eee901/eee901LV LV Name eee901LV VG Name eee901 LV UUID p6D5iZ-UQ2l-g67h-MfHe-lMSO-M3VX-yq7seR LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time qwerty, 2015-11-25 15:18:43 -0500 LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 17.00 GiB Current LE 4352 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 252:0
Now that a 17 gig Logical Volume exists, it can be formatted. I use ext3 on this netbook.
root@qwerty:/dev# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/eee901/eee901LV mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 1114112 inodes, 4456448 blocks 222822 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=0 136 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000
Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
root@qwerty:/dev#
From this point I was able to double click the installer icon on the desktop and complete the operation. When you get to the disk option screen, choose "do something else". From there you need to designate the mount point of sda1 as "/boot" and the mount point of the LVM partition as "/". Proceed normally from there.