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Hardy on the Eee - It can be done! |
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 Thursday 24th April 2008 saw the release of Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) 8.04 (and friends). So it was time to get it on my Eee. I had tried to get the Beta to install with little success - I thought getting Hardy onto the Eee would be a nightmare!
To my surprise, however, after a little research and the experience of installing Gutsy, Hardy is now fully running on my Eee. Everything works including overclocking.
The drivers and tweaks are a little different than Gutsy but the initial install was almost identical.
Installing Hardy was a breeze, the only real change in the installer is the disk partitioning part. The 'manual edit' looks the same but it's use is a little different - but easy to follow.
To that end I will refer you back to the article I wrote on installing Gutsy (Episode 1) to get you to a running native install. Once you've done that come back here for the fun bits!
(One thing I have noticed whilst writing this article and testing with my Eee, sometimes the LiveUSB takes forever to boot, it appears to crash! Just wait and it should come up eventually. See the notes I made at the end about boot times.)
So, in Hardy many things work out the box - but what doesn't? I hear you ask!
1. Wireless - the Atheros Drivers required still aren't included in the ubuntu driver package
2. Hotkeys - are still a bit flakey - this is the fault of the ACPI system not being supported
3. Overclocking - needs to be setup
4. Sound - needs tweaking
5. Shutdown - it doesn't properly
Therefore the above have to be setup plus getting a better OSD and tweaking gnome a little.
Thanks to the efforts of many people over at EeeUser.com and at x20n.de Life has been made rather simpler. Both sites include instructions and scripts to semi-automate the configuration process. I have taken their advice and scripts and compiled my own little version, one that I know works for me and will for you - Hopefully!
Before we can move on you need to make sure you have a working Internet connection! Best done by plugging your Eee, with an ethernet cable, straight into your router. This is mainly because we need packages from the Internet and the wireless card is the last thing we are going to configure!
So once you're on the net go to your Home Directory and create a temporary folder, give it a name something like EeeInstall - it doesn't really matter but remember what you called it!
Now save this file (right click - Save Links As...) into it and open a terminal.
In the terminal type:
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cd EeeInstall (or whatever you called the folder you created earlier)
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You should see 1 file called RiceeeyTweak.sh
next:
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chmod +x RiceeeyTweak.sh
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That makes the script executable
then:
Now the script will ask you for your password, type it in and hit enter.
Don't panic - lots of stuff will now happen in your terminal window!
sit back and watch - it should take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
If it does take longer hop onto our forums and ask - with the last few lines of the script's output.
If all goes well, and you see the 'Reboot Now' instruction - please do!
Once back in test everything to see if it works.
Check:
Hotkeys
The overclock Icon
Wi-Fi
Sound
OSD - the settings are in /etc/asusosd.conf - you can change the OSD placment in there
You will also have to comment out the entry for the CDROM in
/etc/fstab:
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sudo gedit /etc/fstab
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find the line that contains the reference to CDROM and place a # at the beginning, save and exit.
Finally, check that your machine shuts down properly.
If all that goes to plan then sit back and enjoy Hardy on your Eee!
Life is good!
However! - yes there is one.
I still had to edit a couple of files manually.
First:
My SD card that I use for my /home directory didn't unmount correctly. When I booted it would disk check it every time.
I had to edit:
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sudo gedit /etc/init.d/umountfs
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and add:
toward the bottom of the file just before this last bit
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}
case "$1" in
start)
# No-op
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
exit 3
;;
stop)
do_stop
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
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Secondly:
The boot time was rather long. There are issues, apparently, with the kernel boot system that they are working on! I found a workaround that seems to speed things up:
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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
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down at the bottom of the file you will see the entries that correspond to your boot menu options.
Look through these and wherever you see the word
delete it - we don't want to see that word in any line. There is probably just one entry - looks like this:
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=(some strange numbers) ro quiet splash
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it needs to be like this:
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=(some strange numbers) ro splash
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save and exit.
That's about it - job done.
Give your Eee a reboot and again check all the functionality.
Once you're happy - go off and start configuring your software. There are some handy little new bits installed and in the repositories.
Take a look at Gnome Do
and the latest version of Screenlets is great.
Go and be Eee!
cheers |
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Posted by ricey on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 (20:53:16) (3238 reads)
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Re: Hardy on the Eee - It can be done!
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by shamansoft on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (09:18:10)
thanks for a great manual!
I have a little question about Hardy Heron. Should I replace relatime option with noatime in the fstab file, or relatime option is better for eee?
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