|
|
| (18 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) |
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| 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=
| | * Instruction for [[Mika/Notes/Computer_Stuff/Debian_Installation/X220 | X220]]. |
| | | * Instruction for [[Mika/Notes/Computer_Stuff/Debian_Installation/X1_4th | X1 4th generation]] |
| 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 drag 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 the 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 a 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 but I just can't restart at any point if I do that. 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: Updating 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)
| |
| | |
| 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 updating 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
| |
