[Ubuntu-SG] Installation of Ubuntu Jaunty on the Acer TravelMate 5720

[Chen Xiangpeng]

I had a similar experience awhile back with the installation of Jaunty.
Everything worked out of the box for me on my Dell laptop, but it's probably
due to the fact that Dell actually sells laptops loaded with Ubuntu :)

XP

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:08, <spaiduhz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got this laptop for school purposes. Quite satisfied with the build
> quality,
> but I ended up hating windows vista, especially after the service pack.
> Which
> was why I reformatted my computer and installed windows XP professional.
> Which was a slight headache, actually.
>
> Installing Ubuntu 9.04 was much easier, actually. I tried Ubuntu Hardy on
> wubi and upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid via update manager. Feeling rather
> satisfied with the speed of Ubuntu, I decided to make a proper installation
> of ubuntu jaunty in its own partition.
>
> Wubi install and the proper install is very much different. In wubi, you
> start with the windows boot loader, whereby you have to select linux,
> before
> you go into the grub bootloader. annoying. In the proper install, you jump
> straight into the grub loader, get a few seconds change to windows before
> you
> proceed. often i want to load windows, and when i get distracted, ubuntu is
> already done loading. fast or what? maybe even too fast, heh heh.
>
> installing ubuntu was a little confusing when it comes to resizing
> partitions. I had trouble resizing partitions when i loaded the demo. I had
> no problems when i boot to cd and did everything from there though. Created
> two ext3 partitions, and a 7.8GB swapfile partition, and installed ubuntu.
> NO PROBLEM!
>
> when ubuntu starts for the first time, wireless, bluetooth and audio works
> out of the box. outstanding. the Suyin Acer Crystal Eye webcam requires
> some
> effort to start, and installing the restricted ATI drivers was a few clicks
> away. I didnt have a chance to test out the dialup modem, but from what
> i've
> read, as of yet, ubuntu doesnt have drivers for the dialup modem. exclusion
> of dialup in the connection manager seems to confirm this.
>
> On the plus side, using the nokia e71 as a 3g modem works out of the box,
> with the manager helpfully setting itself up to work with singtel
> broadband-on-mobile. :) On the down side, I had trouble getting wammu to
> detect the e71. :(
>
> Windows XP is starting to take 10 minutes to get from coldboot, to ready
> (hdd
> activity off) at this point, so i installed wine. Didnt like it too much,
> so
> I installed virtualbox ose and installed windows xp on it. no problems!
>
> Will talk more when i explore in further detail.
>
>
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