[ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

[Kris Douglas]

On 8 April 2010 13:48, Daniel Case <danielcase10 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Alright :)
>
> I'l put it here and on the etherpad, i mainly followed this guild:
> http://magician.gforums.de/wiki/index.php5?title=UNE_Installation
> but a lot of it is wrong, and one of its packages is packaged badly, so iv
> repackaged them both and attatched:
>
> 1: plug your **USB stick into another linux machine, format it so that you
> have an ms-dos partition table, 100MB fat16 partition, and an ext3
> partition, this can be done in a program like gparted.
>
> Its important that you do this outside of the installer as otherwise, it
> will fail.
>
> ** I used a 4GB stick, and i have heard that it fails on much larger sticks
> (16GB) a way to maybe resolve this would be to make the ext3 partition below
> 4GB, but i havent tested as i do not have a larger memory stick on me
> 2: write the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (here:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook) to a disk (it failed when
> i tried to do it through a VM) and boot from it, once you are at the boot
> menu, select "Install Ubuntu Netbook Remix" (2nd option)
>
> 3: Once it has loaded the installer, insert the USB stick you partitioned
> earlier and choose your settings as normal until you get to the partitioning
> page. Make sure you click "Specify Partitions Manually"
>
> 4: Click on the ext3 partition on the USB drive, and make sure it is used as
> /, but do not format it, then ensure that if you are installing on a
> computer with linux already on it that it is not using the original swap
> space, in order to stop it you just need to select the swap partition, and
> set it to "Do Not Use"
>
> 4: Click next, it should give you a warning about not using the FAT16
> partition, and a warning about the swap space, you can safely disregard both
> of these.
>
> 5: Now that the partitioning is done, keep clicking next until you get to
> the final screen (where it says install and gives you a rundown) look
> through the settings and ensure nothing is being formatted, then click
> "Advance" and untick the "Install bootloader" box.
>
> 6: Click install, and go get some coffee because its going to take a while
> (mine took just under 2 hours, reminds me of the good ol' windows 98
> installation days)
>
> 7: Download the following two files:
> http://www.newforumnetwork.com/files/joggler_partition1_fat16.tar.bz2
> http://www.newforumnetwork.com/files/joggler_partition2_ext3.tar.gz
>
> 8: Put the USB stick into your linux machine (dont boot from it yet) and
> extract each archive into the correct partition, make sure they dont go into
> a folder, when you extract the second archive it will ask about overwriting,
> just select yes to all.
>
> 9: Go into the second partition on the USB stick and find: /etc/fstab
> Once you have found it, comment everything out apart from your ext3
> partition, and the /proc line.
>
> 10: Insert the USB stick into a USB hub with a keyboard and boot up, give it
> a minute or two and you should see some terminal
> code with an error, this is because the Joggler doesn't save the time, so it
> thinks its somewhere in 1980, simple fix, drop down
> to the maintinance shell using ctrl+D and run fsck, then reboot using
> "shutdown -r now"
>
> And thats it, your 10-step guide to booting UNR :D

This guide was great thanks, I'm just at the stage where you have to
add the files from the archives you linked to. I have decided, for no
real reason, to use 10.04, are the archives compatible with this
version of ubuntu, or am I going to have to change some details?

Any advice would be appreciated.



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