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I posted these instructions that worked for me in ‘Linux and other OS’ a couple of days ago:
1. download LinuxLiveUSB for Windows
2. use a USB stick of 1Gb or more (I used a 1Gb stick)
3. run LinuxLiveUSB, select to download Ubuntu 9.10
4. in LinuxLiveUSB deselect ‘Enable launching LinuxLive in Windows’ to get some more needed persistent space on a 1Gb stick
5. select maximum persistant space (on a 1Gb stick about 300Mb). If you are using a bigger USB stick you can select more space but it isn’t needed
6. create the bootable stick
7. plug in an ethernet cable for network access for the remaining steps
8. boot your NC20 with the USB stick
9. at the end of the boot and during the Ubuntu login sound the screen will cycle through colors because a suitable video driver is missing – press CTRL-ALT-F1 to drop to the terminal
10. follow ‘Build from SVN’ instructions from Ubuntu NC20 wiki
11. when you get to the desktop you can play with the system or install to the hard diskI just got 9.10 installed with the openchrome video driver without any big problems. Creating a working USB live media takes a little bit of work. And after thats done the actual Ubuntu installation is very easy. The installer guides you with the partitioning of the hard disk so that isn’t a problem.
Anyway, here’s how I got things rolling:
1. download LinuxLiveUSB for Windows
2. use a USB stick of 1Gb or more (I used a 1Gb stick)
3. run LinuxLiveUSB, select to download Ubuntu 9.10
4. in LinuxLiveUSB deselect ‘Enable launching LinuxLive in Windows’ to get some more needed persistent space on a 1Gb stick
5. select maximum persistant space (on a 1Gb stick about 300Mb). If you are using a bigger USB stick you can select more space but it isn’t needed
6. create the bootable stick
7. plug in an ethernet cable for network access for the remaining steps
8. boot your NC20 with the USB stick
9. at the end of the boot and during the Ubuntu login sound the screen will cycle through colors because a suitable video driver is missing – press CTRL-ALT-F1 to drop to the terminal
10. follow ‘Build from SVN’ instructions from Ubuntu NC20 wiki
11. when you get to the desktop you can play with the system or install to the hard diskAs the openchrome driver is now installed on the persistent space on the USB stick it will remain there and therefore on the next boot from the stick the display will work correctly. Also the driver will be installed on the hard disk if you install Ubuntu.
After playing for a day with 9.10 everything seems to work pretty nicely on my NC20 🙂
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.
Yep, I have freezes also every now and then. Had them with the default XP Home install, then did a complete wipe and installed XP Pro but still I get freezes. My XP Pro installation does have the Samsung supplied software installed also.
I don’t think the freezes aren’t a hardware issue as with Fedora 11 I haven’t had a single one of them.
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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!
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!
As an alternative to NetStumbler I use InSSIDer (http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider) on my NC20. I prefer the interface.
