I've got an Asus Eee 1001 px currently running Ubuntu 13.04. It has just 1GB RAM, so many things run slowly. I've investigated putting a smaller distro such as Puppy/Puppeee on it, but quickly ran into a problem -- I can create the bootable USB, no problem, but cannot find a way to get the machine to actually recognize and boot from the USB (the BIOS doesn't seem to know about it). I have tested the bootable USB on another machine and it works.
I've heard of two possible solutions -- (1) get Plop and mess with the BIOS, which I'm not really comfortable doing; sounds to me like one small mistake and I'm without a working laptop. (2) I've also heard that I can use Unetbootin to add a distro to my hard drive. This sounds more promising for my limited OS skills, but I have seen very little information on doing it this way; every web discussion seems to begin and end with a USB stick/SD card.
I'd appreciate any advice/opinions on which of these solutions is easier and safer. In the worst case I'll put up with the existing performance issues, but it is awfully enticing to think of having a complete OS sitting in ~60MB RAM.
Thanks for reading.
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