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I tried installing (unsuccessfully) Ubuntu on NC20 and I am grateful to all the members who tried to help me. I am now trying to revisit this issue. Which linux will be best to install and run without any (significant) post install work? If you have successfully installed a linux, may I please hera from you?
Thanks in advance.
Hi manojchandra,
I just today installed Fedora 11 on my NC20. I tried a dozen or so different LiveCDs booting from an USB stick and the only one I could get to work pretty much perfectly “out of the box” was Fedora 11. Everything seems to work apart from the screen brightness hotkeys. But that isn’t a problem for me as the brightness can be adjusted from the menus. I haven’t tested everything yet but so far I haven’t had any problems.
I downloaded the Fedora LiveUSBCreator (https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/) and used it to download and install the bootable LiveCD (Fedora 11 i686) on a USB stick. Booted my NC20 from the stick, tested that everything works nicely and then installed Fedora on the hard disk alongside my XP Pro install. I had two partitions on the disk (XP system 40G NTFS and data 70G FAT32). I let the Fedora installer create the needed partitions automatically to the free space on the disk. There is an interface to customize the partitions also.
After installation I booted into Fedora. 1 gig on automatic updates later I’m pretty happy. I can access the data partition from both Fedora and XP.
One thing I needed to do in my install was to download FAT32FORMAT (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml) to format my data partition to FAT32 as XP will only let me format partitions larger than a certain size to NTFS.
Hope this helps you!
[quote1251830575=0d3]Everything seems to work apart from the screen brightness hotkeys. But that isn’t a problem for me as the brightness can be adjusted from the menus. I haven’t tested everything yet but so far I haven’t had any problems.[/quote1251830575]
Try following the instructions in this post, just add NC20 instead of N120. Assuming it’s not already there and it’s some other problem.[quote1251830575=0d3]1 gig on automatic updates later I’m pretty happy.[/quote1251830575]
You may want to install yum-presto which can substantially reduce the size of the updates you need to download, also yum-plugin-fastestmirror can also help to speed things up a bit.[quote1251869146=Alfihar]
Try following the instructions in this post, just add NC20 instead of N120. Assuming it’s not already there and it’s some other problem.
[/quote1251869146]Yep, that did the trick. Now the brightness keys work normally. Thanks!
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One thing I needed to do in my install was to download FAT32FORMAT (http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml) to format my data partition to FAT32 as XP will only let me format partitions larger than a certain size to NTFS.I downloaded this, but when I click on the exe file, nothing happens apart from a black screen for a transient second. I stopped my avast utility, but that did not help. Anything wrong I am doing?
My Hard disc is now divided into c and d. C is left for windows. Ubuntu was in in D, but is now uninstalled.
managed to format in FAT32 using a web programme.
while installing on hard drive, when I use “create custom layout”, I get the following message when I select the device /dev/sda3 type vfat size 73729-” You have not defined a root parttion(/), which is required for installation of fedora to continue. You have not created a boot partition.” messageAny suggestions?
I tried the same thing with fedora 11. I can’t seem to boot from the usb stick. It will boot past the initial fedora boot screen then immediately lock up. The only output I get is “sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through”. I’ve tried this with 2 different usb sticks and 2 different computers. Am I missing something here?
A quick update about my linux trials with NC20. I installed Mandriva 2009.1 and everything worked nicely except the screen backlight kept turning off by itself (I can see the desktop when I shine a flashlight on it). I turned off all power save features but that didn’t help. The backlight turned off even while I was typing.
So its back to Fedora 11 for me – it works nicely.
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