Installing Ubuntu on an Eee PC
UNetbootin
Remarks
When using Ubuntu Linux you can against some problems. When you install Ubuntu 8.04 you have no Internet standard drivers, which the Internet is not without its own operations and have half your PC needed where there is internet available for drivers to download. When using Ubuntu 8.10 you have access to the wired Internet, but the wireless network does not. This is to repair through the terminal window and a connection to the Internet. How do I explain later in this tutorial out.
USB stick slip stream
To ensure that your Ubuntu on your Eee PC can install, you have a USB stick of 1GB minimum required. Or a USB-cd/dvd player. Since many people do not have USB-cd/dvd player, I put in this tutorial how Ubuntu to a bootable USB stick move.
This is done using the UNetbootin program. This is available for both Windows and Linux and is here to download. This program streams a number of items in the Live CD of Ubuntu, which he also from a USB stick can be bottled. Many possibilities exist, but I just take them by:
In "Distribution" you can choose which Linux distribution you want to download and also choose which version. Normally you choose the latest. If you already have one. ISO image of Linux on your computer, you can select "Disk Image" to choose. This way you will not need image of the Internet to download before you can start streaming.
Via "Custom" allows you to Linux Kernel and initrd select and run a bootable installation disk make. This option is for the more experienced user.
Bottom to choose "Type" where the Bootable USB drive to go. Choose the USB stick that you want to use Linux from Ubuntu to install. Since Windows automatically recognizes USB sticks, you can for your own safety, the option "Show All Drives" to be checked.
When you press "OK" button does the rest automatically. If you have an image to download the program here to begin.
Then, just downloaded, or previously selected. ISO file unzipped and copied the USB stick. Depending on the write speed of the USB stick can be a time.
In the next step, the files that make the USB stick bootable, to your USB stick copied. This step takes only a few seconds. If this is you get the message that the installation to the USB stick is successful and that you must start again. You're still not quite ready.
Once you are re-booted go to the USB stick via "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. There follow three short but important steps.
- On your USB stick is a file "syslinux.cfg. You have to change in syslinux. Old
- Open the folder "isolinux", and change the file isolinux.cfg in syslinux.cfg.
- Go back to the root, and change the name of the folder isolinux into syslinux.
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Bios settings of the EEEpc
The USB stick is ready for use. Now you must still ensure that you boot the USB stick so you can start the installation. Before you go your first stop the USB stick in the laptop, so that when booting out.
During the startup of your Eee PC, you stay on until you press F2 in the BIOS are rightly come. This is a bluescreen you something to fit you. Ga not just games, the Eee PC uses these settings to know what to do during startup. This is wrong, then the Eee PC is not (good) start.
To ensure that the Eee PC at startup does what you want, go to the tab "Boot". This is done three times on the arrow to the right key. Go to the "Hard Disk Drives", here you choose which hard disk as the first audit. Choose the USB stick.
After this, go to the "Boot Device Priority". Here you can select which medium should be checked first on bootable files. Here you can place the USB stick on 1st.
Then press F10 and select [Ok]. The laptop will now boot from the USB stick and you will at once ask for a key during startup. After this start the standard Ubuntu LiveCD. The installation, however, differs slightly from the standard.
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Configuration for Ubuntu installation :
- If the LiveUSB once started you can start the installation as described in this tutorial described.
- A few districts, however. If you must choose how you want to do the installation, choose "Manual".
- The next step you select the hard disk with the most space. This is probably the second partition, because the first image recovery state. Select "Delete Partition". Select the free space and choose "New partition".
- At "Use as:" choose Ext2 file system. Choose here for Ext2 to the number of simultaneous write capabilities to the SSD hard drive limit, the life of the SSD benefit. By "mount" a set / down.
- Choose "Next". You get a warning that you do not change memory have been created. This is done either.
- Then you can complete the installation like any other Linux Ubuntu installation.
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Configure Ubuntu for the Eee PC
Ubuntu on your Eee PC is very nice, but he must do to function properly. For that reason, here are some tricks to ensure that this is the case.
USB stick does not mount
I noticed that I had trouble after installing my USB sticks by Ubuntu to mount, allowing me they simply could not user. This is relatively simple to solve using the following method. Open the terminal window and type:
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sudo gedit/etc/fstab
Set the rules for a #. As they are automatically mounted. If that does not solve it, delete the bottom line in its entirety, you remove the USB stick and stop them back in the Eee PC.
Wireless network activation
To work with all wireless network, you must install a custom kernel. This means that he is someone else than the developers of Ubuntu. How do I explain step by step.
You start by adding some repositories, so the new kernel via the terminal window, you can download. This will also be notified if the maker a new version has put on his server, so you always have the latest version can be used. To do this the following steps. At the end of each step press enter. Open the terminal window and enter one by one the following:
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http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-intrepid.list wget sudo mv-v array intrepid.list/etc/apt/sources.list.d/wget http://www.array.org/ubuntu/array-apt-key.asc sudo apt-key add array-apt-key.asc sudo apt-get update
To install the new kernel to use the following command:
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-eeepc linux-headers-eeepc
If that is done, you have the update option from the old kernel out. This is done by the following in the terminal window type:
Code:
sudo apt-get remove linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic
Now you have the Wi-Fi driver download. This can be done via this link. This file you can simply install it by double clicking. The rest goes without saying. If it says "reinstall package" that does not mean that the error is gone, that it just once.
Now you have this file. These files ensure that the Wi-Fi receiver on geklokt to 1.7GHz, enabling the wireless network faster.
To this file you must have a program. RAR files can open. You can install them using the following command:
Code:
sudo apt-get install rar
Open this file in the folder to the desktop is dragging. Go through terminal to the directory of the folder. This is the fastest in terminal cd [space] and then type the folder in the terminal window dragging. If you enter terms you're in that folder. Enter the following commands:
Code:
chmod + x acpi-scripts.sh sudo. / acpi-scripts.sh install
In a last step after you are done. In terminal enter your next command:
Code:
sudo gedit/etc/default/acpi-support
Now search for "laptop" via, for example Ctrl + f. If you ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = false, it will change you in ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = true.
After a reboot, the wireless card to work properly. It could be that the normal kernel (to identify the product behind the name) you are still in GRUB. How you can remove read in this tutorial.
Rapid exit
It is known that during the Ubuntu shutdown sometimes only tends to screen off, but the power shutdown. This is simple to remedy. In terminal type:
Code:
sudo gedit/etc/init.d/halt
Top of this document type rmmod snd-hda-intel. From now close the Eee PC normally.
