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I got x220 core i7. I can either log into Windows once and go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ or try the following. | |||
=Step 1: Get image files= | |||
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Since I have network access, I was going to put image files on a usb stick via http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall . However, this page leads to individual files and I wanted to download them all at once. According to Lenovo website, I have amd64 and here's [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso the link] for a complete package. If you want to collect different parts separately, try [http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/20110106%2bsqueeze3%2bb1/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz the link] but when I did it (note that you need to dd if=boot.img of=/dev/sdb or whereever the usb is in order to convert and copy the img files onto the usb stick), installation failed. | |||
Other pages of interest at this point: | |||
* http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist | |||
I put the file onto my USB stick.I kept putting wrong image files on the usb but I unmounted the usb stick and without removing the stick from the laptop, I did dd if=(path/filename) of=/dev/sdb . '''dd didn't work this time in Ubuntu, so we used a graphical interface USB Live USB creator (usb-creator-gtk).''' | |||
If I just type in mount, it shows where things are mounted. | |||
=Step 2: Booting with the USB stick= | |||
Insert the USB stick and boot the new computer. Press the blue ThinkVantage button when the first page appears. A new page that allows alternative booting or BIOS setup will appear. In BIOS, USB booting should be enabled. | |||
Choose F12 to select USB booting. | |||
The first time I did it, I got boot error because I didn't copy the image file by dd. If I just diddrag and drop or cp, it doesn't work. | |||
There are a few things that could be changed in BIOS. For example, I don't have a fingerprint reader, so all settings for fingerprint can be disabled. Also, under security, there seem to be a few options that allow third-party monitoring of the laptop, so those can be disabled as well. | |||
=Step 3: Installation= | |||
Most of the default settings are good. I should have thought about the new hostname before. | |||
I ran into a problem for GRUB (grub-pc couldn't be installed). I chose LILO instead and that worked ok. I could continue with installation without either of them but if I skip this installation step, I just can't restart at any point. After the basic installation completed: | |||
apt-get install grub-pc | |||
sudo grub-install /dev/sda | |||
sudo update-grub | |||
If I don't get any errors, then I can apt-get purge lilo. | |||
=Step 4: Upgrading the kernal= | |||
Since I had trouble with the resolution, we decided to update the kernal. | |||
dpkg -l |grep linux-image | |||
apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-amd64 (to show which version I have/but this one was too old) | |||
(update /etc/apt/source.list to include unstable) | |||
apt-get update | |||
apt-cache search linux-image | |||
apt-get install linux-image-amd64 | |||
apt-get upgrade (but aborted) | |||
apt-get install vim bash-completion | |||
reboot | |||
=Step 5: Wide aspect ratio= | |||
I had a few problems because the kernal I initially installed was old. | |||
A few ways to check what might be going on are: | |||
xrandr | |||
lspci |grep VGA | |||
grep drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log | |||
Then, after upgrading the kernal: | |||
apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel | |||
Not sure what Bernie did after that... | |||
=Step 6: Wifi= | |||
Some of the new laptops kept crashing our router last year but Bernie said that the problem might have been fixed, so we gave it a try. | |||
Since I needed to get non-free packages (most of the wireless cards are non-free?), I had to add non-free sources to /etc/apt/source.list: | |||
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian unstable non-free | |||
deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian unstable non-free | |||
I can comment out these lines once I finish | |||
Bernie and I tried getting firmware-linux-nonfree but that didn't do the trick, so we did: | |||
apt-cache search intel wifi | |||
apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi | |||
rmmod iwlwifi | |||
modprobe iwlwifi | |||
My wifi didn't crash the router. | |||
=MISC= | |||
# Setting up sudo | |||
Use visudo, which checks for errors. | |||
# Setting the history size | |||
echo $HISTSIZE (to check the current size) | |||
export HISTSIZE=2000 (or however big they need to be) | |||
#ibus | |||
install ibus | |||
install ttf-(japanese fonts): this installs japanese fonts for the system |