Ubuntu in my desktop (installation)

2008/05/01 by Paulo Pereira

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Tomorrow (01/05) is an holiday in Portugal and today it was a nice day to start installing Ubuntu in my Desktop :-)

The first reference for my eXPerience is my own post where I address several important points to check before installing and to achieve.

Running the live cd

So, the first thing was downloading Ubuntu 32 bits, checking the downloaded file hash (look for more info here and burning the cd.

After booting from the cd is important to check the integrity of the cd. Burning cds also fails.

Hardware to check (during the live cd session)

I have a 800x600 screen resolution in my 19’’ monitor, and the image isn’t centered…

I installed EnvyNG using the Synaptic Package Manager (look for envyng-gtk) and just had to run it (Applications > System Tools > EnvyNG), after closing Synaptic (important), choose to “Install he NVIDIA driver (Automatic Hardware Detection)” option.

Note: before installing EnvyNG, in Synaptic, go to Settings > Repositories and in the “Ubuntu Software” tab choose every option. Also, in the “Third-Party Software” tab choose the first option.

Because I was in a live cd session I didn’t restart to see the effect, but everything looks fine in the log so…

Starting the installation now :-)

Hard Drive Partition Layout

/dev/sdc
  /dev/sdc1   ntfs                   21476 MB (20 GB)
  /dev/sdc2   ext3   /               15360 MB (15 GB)
  /dev/sdc5   ext3   /home           15360 MB (15 GB)
  /dev/sdc6   swap                   2048 MB (2 GB)
  /dev/sdc7   ext3   /storage/pool   27719 MB (27 GB)

Post-install: graphics card

After the Ubuntu installation, I restart the computer and choose to boot from Ubuntu in the Grub menu.

I still don’t have the graphic card installed, but the image is centered now.

I installed EnvyNG (like in the live cd session) and restarted.

While restarting a NVIDIA splash screen will be displayed, proofing a successful installation. I now have a normal 1280x1024 screen resolution and some desktop effects are already active.

Also check the System > Administration > NVIDIA X Server Settings. Pretty awesome. Even my monitor is correctly recognized.

Post-install: wireless network card

A warning in the Notification Area told I had a Proprietary Driver to install. I just had to check Enable and the wireless card was installed.

Ridiculous simple…

To Do

Try the wireless network…

Post-install: file system

Besides the / and /home partitions, only root have permissions to write in every other partitions. In my case /storage/pool.

So, we have to add permissions to our user:

sudo chown -R youruser:youruser /storage/pool
sudo chmod -R 755 /storage/pool

Click here for more info.

Post-install: Multimedia

References: Complete Streaming, Multimedia & Video How-to and Medibuntu

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list \
 -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add \
 \- && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common && \
 sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

sudo apt-get remove icedtea-gcjwebplugin openjdk-6-jre && \
 sudo apt-get install alsa-oss \
 compizconfig-settings-manager faad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad \
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly \
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-pitfdll libflashsupport liblame0 \
 sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar w32codecs

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 build-essential \
 debhelper fakeroot regionset

sudo regionset

Check the reference link, because it as many other things you’ll want.

Post-install: System > Preferences

List of changed Preferences:

Post-install: LAMP Server

To install Apache, MySQL and PHP, check here.

Post-install: Windows Legacy

To install VirtualBox to run Windows, check here.

Post-install: NFS file sharing

To configure two Ubuntu machines to share files using NFS, check here.

Post-install: Syncing Windows Mobile 5/6 with Synce

To sync your phone with Ubuntu, check here.

Post-install: extra software

List of extra installation software installed: