Difference between revisions of "Installing Ubuntu 6.06 Flight 5 on a ThinkPad T60"

Revision as of 19:27, 24 March 2006

Installation of Ubuntu 6.04 Flight 5 on a T60 (2623D6U).

The Ubuntu 5.10 installer did not recognize the network card (Intel 82573L), so I decided to try 6.04.

You should probably create the IBM Rescue CDs before you begin.
Downloaded CD ISO of Ubuntu's Dapper flight 5 (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5).
The installer's partitioner allowed me to resize the Windows partition down to 10 GB. I left the IBM recovery partition alone and created three partitions for the Linux system: / (8GB), /usr (8GB), and /home (46.8 GB).
The installer recognized the network card (unlike Ubuntu 5.10), and the installer downloaded a fair number of packages.
The blue "ThinkVantage" button now goes to GRUB instead of IBM's Rescue System. You can get to the IBM partition from the GRUB menu by choosing the "Windows NT" partition.

X wouldn't start. There is no support for the ATI x1300. I changed the driver in xorg.conf from "ati" to "vesa" and made the maximum resolution 1024x768 with a color depth of 16, which at least works.
I did a network upgrade of all packages (on March 23, 2006). This killed X.

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 == Installation of Ubuntu 6.04 alpha Flight 5 ==
+* You should probably create the IBM Rescue CDs before you begin.
 * Downloaded CD ISO of Ubuntu's Dapper flight 5 (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5).
 * The installer's partitioner allowed me to resize the Windows partition down to 10 GB.  I left the IBM recovery partition alone and created three partitions for the Linux system: / (8GB), /usr (8GB), and /home (46.8 GB).