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Installation notes for eeePC 905HD xp to Ubuntu 8.10 / xp dualboot
Ok, so i got myself this eeePC 904HD (black) with Windows XP Home preinstalled. Everything has been working fine so far. But i wanted to try and install ubuntu on it, so here are the steps as i recall to do so. The harddrive weeepc 904hd install notes henrik iivonenas already split into two partitions, so i decided to ditch the D: drive.
First i made a bootable usb-pendrive with unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ (Ubuntu 8.10)
Then i simply installed with the manual option in the partition section and choose the second drive to be deleted and made 1GB partition for swap and the rest for ubuntu.
Here are the steps taken after the install. This is still an ongoing project, so there will probably coming additions to this list.
1. eth0 is working out of box
2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
3. Wifi, ath5k driver install
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic
echo blacklist ath_pci >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
4. This doesn't support 904 yet.
eeeControl, http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/
http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/#download (install with Gdebi or dpkg)
5. Medibuntu
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2 w32codecs acroread
6. Compiz config settings manager
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
7. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras amarok
8. Amarok radio streams codec, rough solution (i haven't found out which plugin is needed yet)
sudo apt-get install xine*
9. For Ubuntu partner maintained software uncomment follownig from /etc/apt/sources.list