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| 1 | - | # Ubuntu 12.10 on Lenovo Ideapad S205 |
| 1 | + | # Ubuntu / Xubuntu 14.04 on Lenovo Ideapad S205 |
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| 3 | - | This piece of shit hardware does not play nicely with Ubuntu. If you've made it this far, hope you haven't pulled all of you hair out of your head yet. |
| 3 | + | This piece of shit hardware does not play nicely with Ubuntu, yet again. |
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| 5 | ## Important Info | |
| 6 | - The S205 uses UEFI and has no bios switches to disable it. | |
| 7 | - This means that we need to create an EFI partition and use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu (32-bit won't work!) and only use primary partitions | |
| 8 | - | - Linux Mint doesn't have EFI in it's partitioner for some reason |
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| 9 | - | - Wifi doesn't work for some reason |
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| 10 | - Create a live USB for Ubuntu 64-bit | |
| 11 | - While on the live USB installation, select "Do Something Else" and make /dev/sda1 an "EFI" partition with size 150MB. It must be a minimum of 100MB, recommended 200MB. | |
| 12 | - Partition the rest of the drive however you want ( / and swap, / and /home and swap, whatever). Use primary partitions only (you might be able to get away with an extended for /home but I haven't tried it). This is my setup: | |
| 13 | - | - While on the live USB installation, select "Do Something Else" and make an "EFI" partition of 125MB. |
| 13 | + | - /dev/sda1 150MB EFI |
| 14 | - | - Partition the rest of the drive however you want ( / and swap, / and /home and swap, whatever). Use primary partitions only (you might be able to get away with an extended for /home but I haven't tried it). |
| 14 | + | - /dev/sda2 20GB ext4 / |
| 15 | - /dev/sda3 5GB swap | |
| 16 | - /dev/sda4 50GB ext4 /home | |
| 17 | - Set the boot installer to install to /dev/sda1 (or your EFI partition #). Do not use /dev/sda. | |
| 18 | - | - Now, go into the BIOS boot menu and make sure that your boot HDD is FIRST, and the mysterious "ubuntu" entry is SECOND. This will enable your Wifi. |
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| 19 | - Pray | |
| 20 | - | Because holy christ, why is it so fucking hard to install linux on this computer. FUCK. |
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| 21 | - Restart your laptop, and boot back into the live USB | |
| 22 | - Now, mount your EFI partition somewhere like this: "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" | |
| 23 | - Change directories into the "EFI" directory in the mounted folder "cd /mnt/EFI" | |
| 24 | - Copy over the super secret important EFI files "cp -rfv ubuntu boot" | |
| 25 | - CD into the boot directory "cd boot" | |
| 26 | - Finally, move grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi "mv grubx64.efi bootx64.efi" | |
| 27 | - Restart, and you should finally have a working Ubuntu/Xubuntu 14.04 on your dumbass Lenovo S205 computer! Yay! | |
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| 29 | Why is it so fucking hard to install linux on this computer. FUCK. |
