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October 2. 00. 8 for. Creating the Installation Media. Because the Eee PC does not have a CD ROM drive and Ubuntu as of this. CD image, you will need to create a bootable. Ubuntu on the Eee PC. The Ubuntu website gives instructions on how to download an Ubuntu disk. USB drive on an existing Linux system. If you have no problem following those. Download the current Ubuntu release CD image ISO from. Ubuntu. com. Insert a USB thumb drive into a USB slot. This drive needs. GB and will be completely overwritten with the installation. USB Creator Run USB Creator from a command line terminal. USB drive. sudo usb creator gtk. The Source disk image is the ISO file you downloaded. The Disk to use device list should show the USB drive you have. Unless you plan on booting from the USB drive regularly, you can. Discarded on shutdown. Click Make Startup Disk when youre ready. Booting the Eee PC in Ubuntu and Installing or Upgrading. Insert the bootable flash drive in a USB port and start the Eee PC. I had some problems with the BIOS seeing the flash drive when rebooting, so you. Press ESC on powerup to get a menu of acceptable boot devices. The. USB drive should be on the list, which you can use the arrow keys to navigate. RETURN to accept your choice. Assuming the boot image can be read, you will. The boot takes a couple of. Welcome After the desktop comes up, you will get a welcome screen. Ubuntu or InstallUpgrade it. Choose installupgrade. You will get a second prompt to confirm you really want to install. Allocate Disk Space If you are installing not upgrading you. Manually Specify. Partitions option so you can have home on a separate partition. This. adds security and recoverability by segregating the system files from the user. I deleted the existing. MB format. hda. MB format. MB. hda. 4 homeext. MB remainder of disk format. Where Are You Keyboard Layout As the install proceeds it took me. The first is to. choose an appropriate time zone and the second is to choose a keyboard layout. The defaults are usually best in most American cases. Who Are You If you will be using this machine in unfamiliar. However, it is imperative that you remember the user name and password you. Reboot After the install completes you will be prompted to restart. Ubuntu and reboot from the new installation on the hard drive. Update After rebooting, you should update your package listing. Ubuntu repository to get the most recent and secure. There is a graphical utility to do this, but. Installation Tweaks. Because this machine is fairly old, most of the old, nasty driver issues are. The rest of this page is devoted to some. Wireless Network Manager The longstanding problems with the Atheros AR5. I had a problem with the. No network configuration found for the current AP. RX Assoc. Resp from 0. ADDRCONFNETDEVCHANGE wlan. Calling CRDA for country US. ADDRCONFNETDEVUP wlan. The solution that I found. The wireless network can be started with the command ifup wlan. Access points can be displayed with. ESSID. If you use a specific ESSID. ESSID with the name appropriate to your network. ESSID. Flash Player The Adobe Flash Player is pretty much essential for. Download the. tar. Linux version from the. Adobe website, decompress. True. Type Fonts Linux distributions rarely ship with a robust. True. Type fonts on a Windoze box. X window system from the command. The list of configured font paths can be found with the command. I usually just use usrsharefontsX1. Copy the. ttf files into that directory and run the commands mkfontdir. X. cd lt directory containing. TTF usrsharefontsX1. X1. 1misc. sudo mkfontscale. You can check to verify the fonts are loading by starting. X application like gimp. The xlsfonts command lists fonts. X and the fc list command lists fonts. The listing will likely be long, but if the fonts are loading. X font names like these for Arial and. Garamond, respectively. Connecting a Projector or Monitor. There is a 1. 5 pin VGA socket on the right side of the machine. Usually the monitor will communicate with the card and adjust. If the. monitor resolution is greater than the LCD, the automatic. LCD display. The external monitor will be fine but. LCD display bottom will be cut off. You may need to use the xrandr command to tweak the X. LCD display and any connected. Screen 0 minimum 3. VGA connected 8. 00x. LVDS connected 1. TV disconnected normal left inverted right x axis y axis. LVDS is the Eee PCs LCD display. VGA is the external device. If you have. no device connected, you will not get a listing of VGA modes. If you are getting no external video, you may need to manually set. The xrandr man page describes the options. For. example, to set the output mode to 1. VGA mode 1. 02. Low Speaker Volume The speakers in this machine are not very. ALSA enabled. mixer program to set the volume so that audio is at least audible. There is no. volume knob anywhere on the machine. Type alsamixer at a terminal. Use the arrow keys to adjust the. You will need to adjust THREE controls to get maximum volume Master. System Simplification. Bluej Solutions Manual. Ubuntu has bloated significantly over the years, which not only makes. CPU. The following are some simplification tweaks that. Text Login I prefer to see whats going on with. This can. be configured in the boot loader GRUB. Edit the etcdefaultgrub configuration file. GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULTquiet splash. GRUBHIDDENTIMEOUTtrue. GRUBCMDLINELINUXDEFAULTtext. GRUBHIDDENTIMEOUT0. After the text mode login, you can start the X window system with. Removing the Desktop If youre hard core command line and dont want. Ubuntu desktop, you might consider getting rid of. X. applications. This will speed your boot time a bit and get rid of some annoying. I use Ice. WM, which can be installed. To get it to start instead. Ubuntu desktop, create the following startup script file in. Flash Drive in fstab If you get rid of the desktop, you will also.