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A bunch of folks from [[http://www.tecschange.org][TecsChange]] are experimenting with the process of installing Ubuntu on a variety of laptops. Here are some notes from the process. ---+ General 128M is the minumum memory that you can use with the graphical desktop. Really. If you want to upgrade a 5.10 installation to 6.06 using a CD you need to use the "alternate" install disc. The "live" install disc won't work. Otherwise you'll need to use the network, which can take many hours on a slow connection. For old/slow machines it's probably a good idea to disable the screensaver, or at least change it to "Blank Screen Only". Some of the X screensavers use huge quantities of CPU. (System->Preferences->Screensaver) Don't forget to install languages (System->Administration->Language Support) ---+ Laptop Model Specific ---++ Thinkpad 600E 6.06 installation from the live disk didn't work. "ubiquity" hung after choosing the keyboard. There was a zombie process that looked like an X keyboard selection program (but I didn't write it down at the time). Installation from the 5.10 disc worked fine, so I expect that text-mode installation of 6.06 would also work. Sound didn't work out-of-the-box. Followed the instructions in the HOWTO below and that did the trick. Note that when I followed the instruction on some other pages to turn quick boot off that seemed to mess up the network interface. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_600<br/> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Script_for_configuring_the_CS4239_sound_chip_in_PnP_mode - HOWTO get sound working<br/> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4BP6Q6.html?selectarea=SUPPORT&brand=root<br/> http://www.mainsheet.org/thinkpad600e/<br/> http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/debian-tp600e.html<br/> ---++ Dell Latitude CPi 266XT <fn>-F1 at boot time to get into the BIOS config. Tried to use a 3com 3C562B/3C563B network card but had no luck. Not sure what the problem was. Appeared to configure fine, but couldn't see any traffic. Not sure if I got a bad CDROM drive, but upgrading over a network was faster than reading the files from the CD. ---++ Dell Inspiron 3500 No sound - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=135620
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