The first obstacle to overcome is the lack of a cdrom drive on the ARTiGO. This is actually rather easily done. Once you have downloaded the Pardus Kurumsal 2 ISO file, you use a simple dd command. Please note that the AMD64 version will have to run in vesa only graphics mode, and as such I highly recommend that you use the 32bit version. My ARTiGO uses a 320GB 2.5" SATA HDD, 2GB DDR2 RAM @ 800mHz, and a USB wireless networking stick. Also, in order to follow the following instructions you need to have a USB thumb drive of at least 1.5GB storage capacity. I am assuming that the thumb drive is /dev/sdb, but you will need to look at your system. The easiest way to do this is to look at your storage devices in your file manager. Your USB thumb drive ought to be listed in your side panel. Next, go to that location. This will mount the device. After that's done use "cat /etc/mtab" to look at your mounted devices. Your thumb drive should show up in the listing.
wget ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/ISO/Installation/Corporate2/i686/Pardus-Kurumsal-2-i686.iso
dd if=Pardus-Kurumsal-2-i686.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
The wget command will fetch the ISO file, and the dd command will write the ISO file to the USB thumb drive. When this is finished reboot the machine.
At system boot press the F11 key on your keyboard. If the USB drive is shown there simply select it, and hit the enter key on your keyboard. If it is not shown press ctl+alt+del and hit del when you see the VIA logo. You need to set hard disk priority to the USB thumb drive (look under "boot" -> "hard drives"). In either case, you will end up at the Pardus boot splash. From this point, set the graphics mode to fail safe and set the language option to your native tongue. This will boot with vesa graphics and start the installer in the language you have selected. Follow the installer's prompts, read the instructions, and you ought to be back at the Pardus boot splash in no time. You will once again need to boot the machine with fail safe graphics selected.
Before doing anything to a distribution post-install I usually like to make sure that my system is up to date. To do this in Pardus you use pisi. The update command is: "sudo pisi upgrade" but I normally do "sudo pisi update-repo && sudo pisi upgrade". I also like to make sure that I can compile source tars, and therefore also issue "sudo pisi install -c system.devel". After that, we need to get the VIA graphics driver. I highly advise not using Firefox. So, fire up Konqueror and head to the VIA driver download section. You will need to make sure you select Ubuntu 10.04 and VX855. This will download as a tar.gz, and you will need to go ahead and untar -xzf the archive. Inside that archive you will find a script 'vinstall' as well as 'vuninstall'. From within your terminal navigate to the driver directory, and issue the command "sudo ./vinstall" and then "sudo reboot". This should allow you to get some decent video acceleration, screen resolutions, and GUI effects.
Overall, I was impressed with the ARTiGO's abilities when running Pardus. I was able to get lagless video in Xine at 1680x1050. Chromium runs well, although Firefox was atrocious. Konqueror ran best, but as Konqueror is unable to display many websites I did need something else available. The audio chipset also functions rather well (although some channels were not turned on by default, so be sure to fix that in kmix). For general purpose computing the ARTiGO is a perfect fit, and if you are willing to invest in an SSD I am sure that it would only get better. I keep my Toshiba Satellite available for anything resource intensive, but the uses for that laptop are few and far between. If anyone has information on the card reader and wireless chipset that are available for the ARTiGO as relates to Pardus, be sure to let me know. I am sure you will see another post about the ARTiGO as soon as I can get a 64 bit distribution running well on it. Until then, happy hacking.
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