I am reponding via my eee1000ha and karmic koala. i used an external usb cd/dvd
drive. I installed an 8gb sd card to my eee1000ha. I partitioned the 160gb hard
drive in half using cd i made. i gave half to windows xp (my wife uses xp) and
partitioned the other half as /home. i installed karmic netbook remix and grub
to the sd card. (Karmic runs on the SD card and my data is on /home partition.)
when i rebooted, i went into the bios setup and made the sd card first to boot.
i continued the reboot plugged into the wired internet connection. karmic booted
up and it updated.i also installed packages that i wanted (audio and video
codecs, pan, packages for my mp3 player,etc.). i rebooted and m y wireless
network was detected. the gui is a bit different but it works great. i use it
for everything. the 6 cell battery gives me almost 5 hrs before i have to
recharge.