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My old Asus EeePC was collecting dust since its display backlight driver chip got broken in August 2012. Now, for a project at the university its second life seems to be come. Unfortunately I disassembled its RAM memory and the HDD. Whilst it was no problem to assemble the built-off RAM again, the HDD was already built-in into an external HDD enclosure for a use as backup drive. I din't want to disassemble it again, so what should I do to get my EeePC running again...? The solution was pretty simple: with an SD Card. But why after all using an SD Card, when an USB flash drive would be more common? The answer is pretty simple. An SD Card can be put into the reader in the EeePC and is covered completely. So its mechanically robust against collisions and cannot be torn off accidentally nor removed. And at least: why not using an SD card? So greenly I bought an SDHC card, inserted it into the EeePC and created a bootable USB flash drive with openSuSE 12.2. An old flat screen, connec