I eventually found some downloads which solved the problem.

Heres the process in WinXP: The first thing you need is the EeePC 901 ASUS Linux USB Flash Utility available from eeefiles.com. I guess this is the version which comes on the support DVD, but I don’t have that and it wasn’t available from the official site, so… (By the way, thanks a lot Asus, making me resort to downloading from a third party site instead of a trusted source). The next file you’ll need is the Xandros Eee Pc 701 Edition ISO. Get it from the eeepc 701 community project on sourceforge. Once you’ve downloaded both of the above its all pretty much downhill! Now either burn the ISO to a physical disk, or mount the image using a program like daemontools. Plug in your 2GB+ USB stick Run the USB Flash utility, select the detected USB drive,wait for it to format. If prompted, remove and re-insert the stick after the format. It will ask for the linux disk (either insert the physical copy you burned or mount the ISO into a drive). Linux will copy (it takes a few minutes) and at the end you should have a bootable restore on the USB drive. Power on the eeepc, hit F2 for BIOS options, go to “Advanced” and set the “OS Installation” to “Start”. F10 to Save and exit. Put the USB drive in your eeepc, reboot, hit escape on POST to get to the boot menu, and you’re off. Xandros will install (took about ten minutes on mine). Remember to go back into the BIOS and set “OS Installation” to “Finished” once its finished.

That really shouldn’t have taken me a whole evening of googling to get done =

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