I downloaded the netinst ISO of the latest release (2010.05 at the time of this writing), burned to CD, and installed with minimal effort. The SSD was divvied up into a 50MB /boot partition, with the rest going to / and no swap setup; as this is an SSD a swap would be rather unnecessary. Gave / the ext2 filesystem and installed a base install with a few extra tools. Total install with just the core install was ~420MB.
I decided to forego installing X and went completely CLI-only. Not to say that X is bad, but I want to see how useful the machine can be without a GUI as part of an experiment. Here's a quick list of some of the tools and apps I have installed:
* lynx & elinks for web browsers
* mutt for email
* irssi for IRC
* frotz for games
* mc for file management
* cURL for file downloads
* htop for system monitoring
* python & perl for development
Most of the other tools and apps installed are the standard set of Linux tools, and I also installed the developer tools so I can compile some things from source. With kernel 2.6.34 and bash 4.0, the entire setup takes up a grand total of just over 1.1GB now.
Here's a picture of my Eee PC running irssi and communicating on #rockbox-community on freenode:
gentoo is a beauty as well! though i remembered it being a bit tricky to get on my eee at the time. i loved how arch had a specific kernel for the eee's.
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