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These are my experience with installing Ubuntu Linux and getting it running. This guide should help you install Ubuntu if you have RAID or an ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 graphics card.

Contents

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Where I started

  • Two 80 GB hard drives that were configured with RAID 0 on a VIA RAID controller.
  • A partition for Windows XP that used 140 GB of my 160 GB hard drive.
  • A blank partition that used the remaining 20 GB of my hard drive.

[edit] Where I ended up

  • Dual booting to Windows XP or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) on my RAID configuration.
  • Beryl installed with my ATI Radeon Mobility X1800 graphics.

[edit] My system specs

  • Model: Alienware m5750 Laptop
  • Processor: Intel Core2 T7200 @ 2.00GHz
  • Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon x1800
  • Hard Drive: 2 x 80 GB Western Digital
    • RAID: VIA RAID controller (Configured with RAID 0)

[edit] My early challenges

When I first decided to install Linux, I chose Ubuntu because of the large amount of community support available. Especially in terms of installing Beryl. When I got to the partitioning step of the install, I was presented with two separate 80 GB drives instead of a single drive. After much searching, I found a guide that let let me load dmraid before proceeding with the installation.

[edit] Installing Ubuntu

[edit] Prerequisites

[edit] Steps

  1. Follow all the steps in this Ubuntu Wiki guide.
  2. If you are like me, you will encounter an error after installing grub when you run the update-grub command. If not, great! Just follow the guide all the way through. If you did encounter an error, do the following:
  3. Make sure that your flash drive is mounted as instructed at the beginning of the Ubuntu Wiki guide.

[edit] Post installation

  1. After your first boot, you will see a notification bubble in the top left telling you there are 200+ updates available. Double click the icon (or go to Administration > Update Manager) and install all the updates.
  2. When the update is done, restart your computer.
  3. Find your current kernel version by typing uname -v in a terminal windows. Take note of the version listed.
  4. Update /boot/grub/menu.lst by executing the following commands. 
sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.bak
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst<

At the bottom of the file, change all version numbers from 2.6.17-10 to the version number you noted in step 3. My resulting file looks like this: 

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia2 ro quiet splash
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
quiet
boot

title		Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-11 (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,1)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia2 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-11-generic
boot

title		Windows XP
root		(hd0,0)
chainloader	+1
  • Note: To make Windows the default operating system that will load, put the Window XP section at the top of the list of three.

[edit] Installing XGL and Beryl

[edit] Installing XGL

Follow METHOD 2 at this guide to install XGL.

and followed the last troubleshooting steps

More troubleshooting: http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Xgl#Error_on_running_hardware_accelerated_3d-applications

[edit] Installing Beryl

Follow this guide to install Beryl.

[edit] Modifications

[edit] Backing up your system

[edit] Making a backup

I used this guide to make a complete image of my entire linux partition. I already had my windows partition mounted so I decided to save the image file there. Here is the exact command I issued 

su -
dd if=/dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia2 bs=4k | gzip -c | split -b 2000m - "/media/windows/backup-fresh/backup.img.gz."

The first command sets you as root. The second command takes the third partition on my RAID (/dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia2), sends it to gzip, which in turn sends it to split which splits it into 2gig parts.

[edit] Restoring from a backup

To restore my system, I would boot onto a live CD then make sure dmraid is installed. You can verify that your RAID set is being recognized by typing 

ls /dev/mapper

which should show all of your RAID partitions. If it does, you need to mount the partition where your backup is stored, then copy the backup image onto the partition it came from. 

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo mount /dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
sudo cat /media/windows/backup-fresh/backup.img.gz.* | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/mapper/via_bjgffdcjia2
  • Note: You must change via_bjgffdcjia2 to your raid set and you must change the number at the end to appropriate partition.

[edit] Helpful tips and tricks

[edit] Accessing Windows partition from Linux

I followed the steps from this guide. Here is exactly what I did: 

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

[edit] Accessing Linux partition from Windows

  • Download and install Ext2IFS.
  • If that encounters an error or does not function, you can create a FAT32 partition. A FAT32 partition can always be read from both partitions.

[edit] Using Windows Firefox profile (bookmarks, add-ons, etc) from Linux

You can synchronize your Firefox profiles between your two operating systems. This includes your bookmarks, add-ons, settings, etc. The following instructions are a simplified version of the directions I found here.

  1. Follow both the subsections above so that you can read/write to your Linux partition from Windows and vice versa.
  2. Boot to the operating system that does not already have the majority of your bookmarks.
    • (i.e. Boot to Ubuntu if all your bookmarks are there already and you want your Windows Firefox profile to the the "primary" one).
    • Note: It does not matter which one is the "primary" profile. Neither operating system will have more or less control over the profile. It is just a matter of preference.
  3. Copy these instructions to a text file.
  4. Close all Firefox windows.
  5. From a command line, boot firefox with the -profilemanager argument.
    • In Windows, execute "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -profilemanager
    • In Ubuntu, execute firefox -profilemanager
  6. Delete the current profile. It will be named either "default" or "Default User".
  7. Create a new profile with the same name as the profile on the "primary" partition.
    • If you are in Ubuntu right now and want Windows to be the primary profile, make the profile name "default".
    • If you are in Windows right now and want Ubuntu to be the primary profile, make the profile name "Default User".
  8. At the bottom of the screen, press the Choose Folder... button.
    • To make Windows your primary profile, choose the following folder: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.deafult
    • To make Ubuntu your primary profile, choose the following folder: ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.deafult or /home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.deafult (they are the same thing).
  9. Start Firefox from both operating systems to make sure it is working.

[edit] Disabling Shift+Backspace quick logout

An annoying feature of XGL is that whenever you press Shift+Backspace, X restarts and you are logged out of your sessions therefore losing any unsaved data. I actually did this on accident many times while writing this wiki entry. Here is what you need to do to disable it. 

sudo gedit ~/.Xmodmap

The file should be blank. Add this line to it, save, then exit. 

keycode 22 = BackSpace BackSpace Terminate_Server

[edit] Creating a root password

Use with care. Most commands can be issued with sudo in front to simulate root privileges. At some point, you may need to actually log in as root, and by default no root password is set. To set a root password use 

sudo passwd root
  • To log in as root, simply type su in a terminal window.

[edit] Increase performance

Here is a guide that gives some performance increases on Ubuntu.

[edit] Repairing GRUB

If you find you are no longer presented with a GRUB screen when you boot your system, you probably need to reinstall GRUB. Follow these steps:

  1. Boot to a 7.04 live CD
  2. Enter a terminal and type 
sudo grub
  1. The GRUB command line interface will load. Type the following into it: 
root (hd0,0)
find /boot/grub/stage1
setup (hd0)
  1. Restart Ubuntu

More information can be found in the GRUB manual.

[edit] External links

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