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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.
| | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com |
| | | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com/beats-by-dr-dre-pro-1.html |
| =Step 1: Get image files=
| | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com/beats-by-dr-dre-solo.html |
| | | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com/beats-by-dr-dre-solo-hd-1.html |
| 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.
| | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com/beats-by-dr-dre-studio-1.html |
| | | http://www.beatsbydresolooutlet.com/justbeats-headphones.html |
| Other pages of interest at this point:
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| * http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist
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| 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).'''
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| '''The one I got above was old, so everything I got was old. I changed in the source.list squeeze->testing.''' Then, apt-get dist-upgrade
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| If I just type in mount, it shows where things are mounted.
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| =Step 2: Booting with the USB stick=
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| 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.
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| Choose F12 to select USB booting.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| =Step 3: Installation=
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| Most of the default settings are good. I should have thought about the new hostname before.
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| 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:
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| apt-get install grub-pc
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| sudo grub-install /dev/sda
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| sudo update-grub
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| If I don't get any errors, then I can apt-get purge lilo.
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| =Step 4: Upgrading the kernal=
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| Since I had trouble with the resolution, we decided to update the kernal.
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| dpkg -l |grep linux-image
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| apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-amd64 (to show which version I have/but this one was too old)
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| (update /etc/apt/source.list to include unstable)
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| apt-get update
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| apt-cache search linux-image
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| apt-get install linux-image-amd64
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| apt-get upgrade (but aborted)
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| apt-get install vim bash-completion
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| reboot
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| =Step 5: Wide aspect ratio=
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| I had a few problems because the kernal I initially installed was old.
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| A few ways to check what might be going on are:
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| xrandr
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| lspci |grep VGA
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| grep drivers /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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| Then, after upgrading the kernal:
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| apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
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| Not sure what Bernie did after that...
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| =Step 6: Wifi=
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| <code>
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| :deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian unstable non-free
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| :deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian unstable non-free
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| </code>
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| I can comment out these lines once I finish
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| Bernie and I tried getting firmware-linux-nonfree but that didn't do the trick, so we did:
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| <code>
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| :apt-cache search intel wifi
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| :apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi
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| :rmmod iwlwifi
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| :modprobe iwlwifi
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| </code>
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| My wifi didn't crash the router.
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| =MISC=
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| * Setting up sudo
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| Use visudo, which checks for errors.
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| * Setting the history size
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| echo $HISTSIZE (to check the current size)
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| export HISTSIZE=2000 (or however big they need to be)
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| </blockquote>
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| * Set up ibus for Japanese input
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| <blockquote>
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| install ibus and ibus-anthy
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| install ttf-(japanese fonts): this installs japanese fonts for the system
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| </blockquote>
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| * iceweasel
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| set up keyword shortcuts
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| addons for noscript and https-everywhere
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| right-click in text boxes and click on "Add dictionary" and add English dictionary for automatic spell check.
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| * dist-upgrade to testing
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| * can't mount usb
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| Error message:
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| <blockquote>
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| Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
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| mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
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| missing codepage or helper program, or other error
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| In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
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| dmesg | tail or so
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| </blockquote>
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| Solution: comment out /dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
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| Somehow, /etc/sdb was set to CDROM. One, I don't even have a CD drive and two, that's not usually when cdrom should be set to.
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