On 8 April 2010 13:48, Daniel Case <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright :) > > I'l put it here and on the etherpad, i mainly followed this guild: > http://magician.gforums.de/wiki/index.php5?title=UNE_Installation > but a lot of it is wrong, and one of its packages is packaged badly, so iv > repackaged them both and attatched: > > 1: plug your **USB stick into another linux machine, format it so that you > have an ms-dos partition table, 100MB fat16 partition, and an ext3 > partition, this can be done in a program like gparted. > > Its important that you do this outside of the installer as otherwise, it > will fail. > > ** I used a 4GB stick, and i have heard that it fails on much larger sticks > (16GB) a way to maybe resolve this would be to make the ext3 partition below > 4GB, but i havent tested as i do not have a larger memory stick on me > 2: write the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (here: > http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook) to a disk (it failed when > i tried to do it through a VM) and boot from it, once you are at the boot > menu, select "Install Ubuntu Netbook Remix" (2nd option) > > 3: Once it has loaded the installer, insert the USB stick you partitioned > earlier and choose your settings as normal until you get to the partitioning > page. Make sure you click "Specify Partitions Manually" > > 4: Click on the ext3 partition on the USB drive, and make sure it is used as > /, but do not format it, then ensure that if you are installing on a > computer with linux already on it that it is not using the original swap > space, in order to stop it you just need to select the swap partition, and > set it to "Do Not Use" > > 4: Click next, it should give you a warning about not using the FAT16 > partition, and a warning about the swap space, you can safely disregard both > of these. > > 5: Now that the partitioning is done, keep clicking next until you get to > the final screen (where it says install and gives you a rundown) look > through the settings and ensure nothing is being formatted, then click > "Advance" and untick the "Install bootloader" box. > > 6: Click install, and go get some coffee because its going to take a while > (mine took just under 2 hours, reminds me of the good ol' windows 98 > installation days) > > 7: Download the following two files: > http://www.newforumnetwork.com/files/joggler_partition1_fat16.tar.bz2 > http://www.newforumnetwork.com/files/joggler_partition2_ext3.tar.gz > > 8: Put the USB stick into your linux machine (dont boot from it yet) and > extract each archive into the correct partition, make sure they dont go into > a folder, when you extract the second archive it will ask about overwriting, > just select yes to all. > > 9: Go into the second partition on the USB stick and find: /etc/fstab > Once you have found it, comment everything out apart from your ext3 > partition, and the /proc line. > > 10: Insert the USB stick into a USB hub with a keyboard and boot up, give it > a minute or two and you should see some terminal > code with an error, this is because the Joggler doesn't save the time, so it > thinks its somewhere in 1980, simple fix, drop down > to the maintinance shell using ctrl+D and run fsck, then reboot using > "shutdown -r now" > > And thats it, your 10-step guide to booting UNR :D
This guide was great thanks, I'm just at the stage where you have to add the files from the archives you linked to. I have decided, for no real reason, to use 10.04, are the archives compatible with this version of ubuntu, or am I going to have to change some details? Any advice would be appreciated. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting, Design and Server Administration, Technical Support & Computer Construction T. 02030518469 M. 07728574285 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
