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

[Nick HS]

On Monday 18,May,2009 11:08 AM, spaiduhz at gmail.com wrote:
> 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!
>    
Sounds great that you got it all working, you shouldn't really need an 
8GB swap file, and usually the easiest way to partition is to just use 
the "Split disk in half" option with the slider thingy and it handles 
all of that for you

You can set grub to boot Windows instead of Ubuntu by default and/or 
increase the timeout.

Anyway, you should stop by our IRC channel #ubuntu-sg on 
irc.freenode.net (or http://ubuntu.sg/irc)

Thanks Nick