Sager NP7620 Laptop<\/p>\n
I set this system up for a friend of mine. The laptop power supply is going bad and the Windows XP installation was riddled with malware. I had quite a few issues installing, since the power supply is dying and various devices will only work intermittently.<\/p>\n
After trying to boot into the Ubuntu Live CD a few times and failing, because of the dying power brick, I came across a utility called UNetBootin<\/a>. I used UNetBootin’s “frugal install” option to boot directly into the Ubuntu Live CD stored as an ISO on the solitary NTFS partition. I was able to install Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala alongside Windows XP. After transferring personal files between the partitions I decided to get rid of Windows entirely to make more room for personal files. Unfortunately, I ran into a roadblock with UNetBootin not wanting to run when installed on Ubuntu. I tried loading the ISO of the Ubuntu Live CD, other ISOs, and eventually got the actual physical CD to spin up in the CD-ROM. At which point I made the unfortunate decision to just reinstall Ubuntu from scratch off the CD. Of course, the installation failed about half way through and I was left with a system that only booted into a grub recovery shell with little to no options. It would seem grub didn’t even install all the way. Now what? Well, since I was able to boot from the Live CD (once out of every ten times I tried), I went ahead and sunk my teeth in.<\/p>\n First, I had to make sure grub was fully installed:<\/p>\n Now grub is installed, so even though I can’t boot from USB on this machine, I can now tell grub to boot from the Live CD I have installed to a USB disk. So, I went ahead and copied a kernel to the hard drive to boot into later:<\/p>\n Then I rebooted and was presented with the grub command line interface. I entered the following commands:<\/p>\n Bam! Booted into the Live USB drive and started installation!<\/p>\n Created 1gb swap partition, 10gb root partition, and the rest went \/home. Setup my user for auto login, and off it went.<\/p>\n All network devices worked fine right out of the box. Connected to my wireless network and opened\u00a0 Network Manager\u00a0 to selected “Available to all users” to avoid keyring dialogs. Connected.<\/p>\n I ran: No problems. Restart required.<\/p>\n Audio worked out of the box.<\/p>\n Video worked out of the box.<\/p>\n Installed the following software with no problems: Sager NP7620 Laptop I set this system up for a friend of mine. The laptop power supply is going bad and the Windows XP installation was riddled with malware. I had quite a few issues installing, since the power supply is dying and various devices will only work intermittently. Install After trying to boot into … Ubuntu 9.10 Installation – Sager NP7620<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23,27,31,36,42,43],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","tag-grub","tag-install","tag-np7620","tag-sager","tag-ubuntu","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/subone.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}$ sudo mkdir \/mnt\/root
\n$ sudo mount \/dev\/sda6 \/mnt\/root
\n$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=\/mnt\/root \/dev\/sda<\/code><\/p>\n$ sudo mkdir \/mnt\/usbdrive
\n$ sudo mount \/dev\/sdb1 \/mnt\/usbdrive
\n$ sudo mkdir \/boot\/usb-boot
\n$ sudo cp \/mnt\/usbdrive\/casper\/vmlinuz \/mnt\/root\/boot\/usb-boot
\n$ sudo cp \/mnt\/usbdrive\/casper\/initrd.lz \/mnt\/root\/boot\/usb-boot<\/code><\/p>\n> root (hd0,6)
\n> kernel \/boot\/usb-boot\/vmlinuz file=\/cdrom\/preseed\/ubuntu.seed boot=casper noprompt cdrom-detect\/try-usb=true persistent
\n> initrd \/boot\/usb-boot\/initrd.lz
\n> boot<\/code><\/p>\nNetwork<\/h3>\n
Update<\/h3>\n
\n$ sudo apt-get update
\n$ sudo apt-get upgrade<\/code><\/p>\nAudio<\/h3>\n
Video<\/h3>\n
Other<\/h3>\n
\n$ sudo wget --output-document=\/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/medibuntu.list http:\/\/www.medibuntu.org\/sources.list.d\/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
\n$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
\n$ sudo apt-get install gnome-do<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"