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

[Daniel Case]

Kris, i have had a quick look through the files and they should work with
10.04, but theres only one way to find out ;)

If you do manage it, let me know (also let me know if it breaks and i will
have a look see why) :)

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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