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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Booting from the hdd, aka. from bad to worse
Of course edubuntu does not boot. Blame the s205's horrid UEFI. Uefi mode booting doesn't work so starting from the usb stick to change the bootloader from uefi to pc.
First thing to note after booting from USB: wireless works. WTF?!
The workaround for the UEFI bug is to partition with MSDOS part table and to install grub-pc.
I fire up gparted and repartition. Reinstalling the OS is of course a necessity.
First thing to note after booting from USB: wireless works. WTF?!
The workaround for the UEFI bug is to partition with MSDOS part table and to install grub-pc.
I fire up gparted and repartition. Reinstalling the OS is of course a necessity.
Booting, aka. where things start to go wrong
While the screen is all garbled in GRUB due to bad modesetting that has something to do with the poor UEFI implementation of the s205, it actually boots and starts the bootsplash without graphical errors.
After booting the first things to note are:
1. Bluetooth defaults to off. Sensible defaults finally. Unlike Gnome 3 shell.
2. Wireless though detected does not see any networks. So I guess installation will happen offline.
Well turns out that installation will happen online since the installer actually detects my wireless network. I double check, the graphical network manager still doesn't detect anything.
Romanian translation of the installer is almost complete, only one slide is untranslated, the one advertising ubuntu one.
Downloading and preparing the installation medium
Download speed of the LTS 12.04.1 amd64 iso is relatively slow in http mode (800k/sec) and isn't much higher in torrent mode (1MB/sec).
This is not surprising as the safest bet is i386 on older hardware. The i386 iso has 10x the seeds, but I prefer to use all of my 8GB ram.
Iso size is 2.6 GiB so installation media must be at least of DVD size. Since my s205 has no optical drive I used unetbootin to make a bootable usb stick out of the DVD iso.
This is not surprising as the safest bet is i386 on older hardware. The i386 iso has 10x the seeds, but I prefer to use all of my 8GB ram.
Iso size is 2.6 GiB so installation media must be at least of DVD size. Since my s205 has no optical drive I used unetbootin to make a bootable usb stick out of the DVD iso.
Welcome
This blog is intended as a step-by step record of my experimentation with the education oriented ubuntu offshoot linux distro.
First phase will be usage on my personal laptop, a Lenovo s205 (E350 APU) with 8 Gigs of ram.
Second phase will be LTSP usage
Third phase will be enterprise deployment on at least 20 workstations
Features that I will be exploring in depth are multilanguage support (Romanian and Hungarian), educational features (applications), deployment/ automation and terminal server support.
First phase will be usage on my personal laptop, a Lenovo s205 (E350 APU) with 8 Gigs of ram.
Second phase will be LTSP usage
Third phase will be enterprise deployment on at least 20 workstations
Features that I will be exploring in depth are multilanguage support (Romanian and Hungarian), educational features (applications), deployment/ automation and terminal server support.
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