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Now, you need to get that pesky OpenChrome driver.

I don’t think that these steps are necessary to the process at hand, but you’re going to need to stall updates later, anyway.

UBUNTU MINI ISO WIRELESS UPGRADE

What a rush! When it’s done, you can enter apt-get upgrade At this point, I tested it out by enteringĪnd watching the pretty lines scrolling by, telling me that everything was working properly.

Save the file, then enter the following on the command line to restart networking:.

Plug them into the file where they make sense, following this pattern: You will need the IP address and those other numbers you copied from Vista. This is vi, and it is the text editor from hell.

Oh noes! Now you are in a new, even more hostile environment than the command line.

If you don’t, repeat the two above commands. But this information will not help you if you cannot figure out where in the file structure you are supposed to be when you enter the commands. I used the information in Ubuntu Networking Configuration Using Command Line. Don’t even think about wireless – just bit the bullet and plug that Mini-Note into the router.

The first order of business is to get the networking going.

If you need some commands, the Ubuntu Cheat Sheet may be useful. You have no GUI to protect you from the raw OS. The option that you really want is “drop to a root shell.” Choose it. Nothing will help, but feel free to try them.

When the scrolling text ends, you will have a list of recovery options.

You’ll get to enjoy watching some scrolling text for a while.

When it’s finished, the machine will reboot.

Ubuntu will take its sweet time partitioning your drive and installing.

UBUNTU MINI ISO WIRELESS HOW TO

If you know how to correctly handle it, please leave me a comment below! I ended up skipping that step, which was probably a mistake. The only question I had trouble with was the one about networking. Ubuntu should load a text-based installer. Hit F9 to enter the boot options menu and choose the optical drive.

Put the CD in your external optical drive and boot up the Mini-Note.

You’ll need them if you don’t know how to configure your network, like I didn’t. In Vista, you can find them by following steps 1-3 in this article.

Before you reboot, record your IP address and the list of related numbers.

(It’s not just a data CD – it must be an ISO image.)

After the download has finished, burn the image to a CD.

It should open in your bit torrent client and start downloading. I was using Vista, and I grabbed BitTorrent (easy enough to remember!). I’m also assuming that you have a working operating system already installed on the Mini-Note. You’ll need an external optical drive if you want to play along.

UBUNTU MINI ISO WIRELESS INSTALL

To the boot options line does NOT allow you to successfully install Ubuntu on your Mini-Note, here are the steps that I followed to get it to work. So, for anyone who finds that adding xforcevesa Luckily, I found a blog post that laid out the basics of what I needed to do: get the alternate Ubuntu installer image, install it, boot into recovery mode, drop to a root shell, and compile and install the latest OpenChrome snapshot.

UBUNTU MINI ISO WIRELESS DRIVER

Clearly, the graphics driver wasn’t working. When I tried the usual fix, it spat out a psychedelic array of colors and symbols, like a thing possessed. The machine that I got back from HP last week was different. The first and second main boards of my Mini-Note allowed you to make a very simple addition to the boot options line when you boot the normal Ubuntu image CD. My point is to explain how to install Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note. However, I’m not writing this post to complain about the quality of my HP hardware. I bought it in May of 2008, and during the 9 months since then, it has needed to have its main board (HP-speak for motherboard?) replaced twice. I hate it because it is constantly breaking.

I love it because it is small and light – it’s a netbook, and weighs less than 3 pounds, including the battery and AC adapter.

The tale of my HP 2133 Mini-Note is long and frustrating.