Ubuntu :: Install 9.10 On An Older IBM Laptop From A LiveCD?
Feb 24, 2010
I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an older IBM laptop from a LiveCD. (Windows stopped working and I thought this would be a great time to try Linux!) When I boot up Ubuntu (which takes forever) it starts up, but I don't think it is recognizing the wireless card (DL 650). One suggestion I got from the net was to disable the acx module by blacklisting it with the statement:
blacklist acx
in the blacklist.conf file.
The next step is to install ndiswrapper with:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common
The last step is to get the Windows driver (I have it) and put it in a directory. Then go to that directory and type:
sudo ndiswrapper -i AIRPLUS.INF. This is all well and good, but where do I do these things to test to see if it works and ultimately, if it works, to set it up this way permanently? How do I edit blacklist.conf if this is a LiveCD and as soon as I turn off the machine everything goes away? I am not sure that I can install on the hard disk at this point because I don't want to wipe out Windows yet (it isn't my computer). I would like to prove Ubuntu (or maybe Xubuntu) before committing to it. I am also not sure that the single USB port will allow me to install a USB stick version of Ubuntu.
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Jan 5, 2011
My laptop is a Medion MD 96970 (bought at Aldi in September 2008) with
- graphic card nVidia GeForce 9300M G
- processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz
- 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
- 3GB RAM and 300 GB memory
1) Originally, my laptop came with Windows Vista. Then I got a SUSE linux 11.0 CD, let it make a partition and installed Suse 11.0. Since Suse11.0 isn't updated any further I would like to change to Suse 11.3 (or whatever is newer). How should I proceed? (I can't find my old Windows Vista CDs and would like to KEEP THE PARTITION, thus formating all isn't an option)
2) In order to make a backup I bought a portable hard drive from iomega (USB 2.0). Then I noticed that it is formated in NTFS. SUSE 11.0 doesn't seem to like it --- what should I do? Can I reformat it somehow?
3) Suse 11.0 doesn't like my sound card. Thus I couldn't Skype or listen to music --- do you know if this problem is solved under Suse 11.3?
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I am totally new to Ubuntu and I have no idea how to play with code.
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I have tried to get fedora 14 to boot, but it will not. A newer computer I have will boot from the FC14.
why I cannot get the live CD's to boot?
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto an older computer. It has 1GB of RAM.
I couldn't get the disc to boot up on start up so I got Ubuntu to fix that for me with the handy feature it has on the installation disc.
However, when trying to boot up Ubuntu from the disc, it gives me this error:
try (hd0,0): NTSF5: error: "prefix" is not set
Waiting for about two minutes seems to ignore this, however, as it goes straight into the Ubuntu start up screen. However, after being there for a moment the loading bar stops loading and it seems to stop working in general.
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I just upgraded one machine to 10.10 and it included the new modeswitch 1.1.4 which does not work, the modem is never discovered. I searched around and found that this is a bug in the latest modeswitch and apparently if you back down to version 1.1.3 it works.
So, i have two questions,
first, where can i find version 1.1.3 of modeswitch. I have searched and cannot find older version than 1.1.4 as a .DEB file.
second, i do have a really old version of modeswitch (1.1.0-2) on my hard-drive and have been trying to load my older 1.1.0-2 version and am having real problems with it. I remove the 1.1.4 version and its data using the ubuntu software centre and it looks like it properly is removed. I then click on the .DEB file that contains 1.1.0-2 and it opens the software centre and installs it (the data seems to be automatically loaded as i never have to install that). I then search for modeswitch and the version that has been installed is the newer 1.1.4 one, not the older one i clicked on. I am confused as this computer is not attached to the internet but it seems to find the newer version from somewhere, uses it and therefore does not work. I presume the version 1.1.4 is cached somewhere and i am not able to clear it out.
Incidentally, the source of the information that i have so far is here:
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From reading this, i do understand that there is a problem, After reading this bug fix I tried editing the config file for the modeswitch modems and changing all of them to the format indicated, but no joy.
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or
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Code:
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Buildfile: build.xml
clean:
initcopy:
initpoms:
[echo] Setting up dependencies
Build Failed
/opt/jboss-seam-2.2.1.CR1/build/common.build.xml:95: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/opt/jboss-seam-2.2.1.CR1/build/utilities.build.xml:18: Directory /opt/jboss-seam-2.2.1.CR1/classes/poms creation was not successful for an unknown reason
Total time: 0 seconds
How can I install Ant 1.7.0 (i.e. an older version of an existing package)?
Code:
asookazian@asookazian-desktop:/opt/jboss-seam-2.2.1.CR1/examples/booking:10:31 PM:$sudo apt-get install ant=1.7.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '1.7.0' for 'ant' was not found
I downloaded the zip file for 1.7.0 but I need to redo all the symbolic link stuff, no?
Code:
asookazian@asookazian-desktop:/usr/bin:10:34 PM:$ls -la ant | less
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2010-03-23 06:15 ant -> ../share/ant/bin/ant
I'd like to keep both versions of the ant package in my Ubuntu 9.10 system if possible...
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Code:
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