Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Asus EEE PC
My recent trip to Dublin (to speak at Mobile Monday Dublin) was a little watershed moment. I pretty much committed to the Asus EEE 901 completely. Unlike previous overnight trips (eg the Birmingham Social Coffee events), I had a fair amount of work that I was still going to be doing while away, including writing up the MoMoDub talk and accompanying PowerPoint presentation. The EEE was going to be the only workhorse with me.
Needless to say, it passed with flying colours.
In terms of Operating Systems, as the EEE left for these trips it was still able to dual boot to three modes… the easy mode of Asus’ Xandros implementation, the advanced mode KDE desktop (also Xandros) and the Netbook Remix of Ubuntu (see for a bullet point on running Ubuntu on the EEE PC). During the trip, I stayed almost exclusivly in the Ubuntu mode.
Which led me to the decision of doing a clean install of Ubuntu Netbook Remix onto the EEE PC’s internal drive, wiping out the Xandros install and any of the Asus applications. Skipping to the end, I’m now sitting with a dedicated Ubunutu Netbook machine, with pretty much everything working, including the ’stand by’ option (which had a bug stopping it work on an SD install) and solid Wifi, Bluetooth and throttleable CPU speeds.
The steps to this are very much similar to installing Ubuntu to a bootable SD card for the EEE, so head there for the simple bullets. I’ll just add in what’s different in the following bullet points…
- When you run the Ubuntu installer (which kicks in automatically after booting from the USB key), if you are duplicating my set up then you want to do a Manual setup of the two disks (assuming you have a 901, which I do). Delete all existing partitions on sda (the 4GB) and sdb (the 16GB).
- Choose sda as / (and format as ext3)
- Choose sdb as /home (an format as ext3)
- Now go through the rest of the installation process, but don;t alter the grub bootloader settings (ignore the advance menu options).
- You may not need to do as many edits and tweaks as I did for the SD card install.
You should have an all singing, all dancing Ubuntu 8.04.1, running the the rather spiffy Netbook Remix. Enjoy – I know I am.
November 21, 2008; Mobile Computing;
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