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need operating system for Asus EEE Pc Series netbook

A customer brought an Asus EEE PC Series netbook (the only information in the BIOS is "701 ACPI BIOS Rev. 0401)

The previous operating system was "Grub" and, i if understand correctly, it is Linux based.  Can someone help me to locate this OS and help me install, as I am unfamiliar with this type of OS.  I tried to install Windows Xp but the capacity of the hard drive is only 3.8 gb which is just not enough for windows xp.
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WOW!! I learned a lot today!  I downloaded and copied the puppy onto a dvd disk and that worked great.  I attempted to install puppy onto the hard disk and I think it installed ok except that now it will not boot up.  Should I also install Grub, and if so how do I do this? Do I need to install GRub before I install puppy?

Also the other day I went to asus website but could not find this netbook's model and when I put in the serial number, it couldn't locate that either.  I got hold of tech support (chat line) and they could not help me out.  They said there is not a recovery disk for that netbook and they didn't even know how to help me with the error 17 that grub was giving.  So, you have done much more then Asus tech have done already.
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I first went to Gparted and formated the hard drive to ex2, so now the partition is /dev/sda1 and file system is ex2

I then selected "setup" then "puppy universal installer" then selected "internal (ide or Sata) hard drive" and selected the only internal hard (of course) "sda ATA Siliconmotion SM 3.726 GB" hard drive.

It does tell me, now, that there is not an mbr master boot on the hard drive, which is why it is not booting.  I need to know the proper sequence to get mbr on the hard drive and get puppy installed so everything will work
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Just wanted to thank you for your help with this issue.  Once I followed your instructions I found that it wasn't hard at all.  I played around with it on a couple of other computers and the more I played with it the more I liked it.
Although puppy is a nice little distro that runs fine on weak and older hardware, be aware that it has one great big drawback. It only uses the root account and therefore the user can do everything with it. So in that sense it is very insecure. Possibly one of the puppy spinoffs (like MacPup etc), uses user accounts, so it may be worth trying those out.