I need help installing ubuntu on a lenovo laptop, has an ironlake cpu, I forget the product number though, I have tried to get ubuntu gnome working, I used linux pen drive, and as a live cd It works fine, but when ever I try to get it on to the disk it just says there is a bug in the installer that makes it crash. I have somewhat of a complicated scheduled so I can only see it on weekends. So i was just going to try typical ubuntu so I hope that will work. Also when I get it up and running I would like to know how to get the finger print scanner to work, think that would be cool. Also I don't know jack about partitioning filesytems and such like fat 32 for example. so some pointers would be cool.
omegalpha
Seems like the ISO maybe damaged, re-download it and re-flash the USB, If you have a Windows machine free use Win32 disk imager, its never failed me.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download
For the finger print scanner you need to fist identify the part, I expect it will use PCI based connection, so lspci will find it, it should identify it with a name (Using HAL)
Partitioning is a cake walk in Linux, download gparted (sudo apt-get install gparted) and then select the source (USB or /dev/sdX) then click the partition and format it to F32, simples.
Any other questions feel free to ask!
but when Installing is my question, is how to do it, partiononing the hard drive
As far as partitioning goes, you can let ubuntu do it automatically, but you'll lose all your data on your drive.
If that's not an option, I'm sure there are plenty tutorials around, just search for "ubuntu partitioning guide".
Might need a few more details. Such as, uefi or BIOS, is it going to be aduel boot and what other OS if it is and finally maybe a model number for laptop.
Partitioning should be done during the installation process. Here you have detailed instructions on how to download the IOS file and install Ubuntu.
should be pretty straight forward. If you have windows installed on the machine and sufficient spare storage space, the installer should offer to install alongside Windows and give you a slider to indicate how much space is alotted to each partition.
it's a really old laptop (circa 2010) it's made by lenovo, yet I know for a fact that IBM made the mobo, I don't rember all of it but it's a think pad with something along the lines of X501, I forget the rest.
Also it has windows 7 previously on it, so yeah, I want to keep that on there.
Yeah. Unless you are worried about drive fragmentation on the most miniscule scale and you want a different type of partitioning set-up like with XFS or something you don't have to worry about it :P
It will have a dualboot setup already for you. No worries.
If it helps at all I use a DVD for my installs. If you have one lying around you should burn one.
thing dosen't have a dvd drive on it. And I'm not looking to spend cash, I'm using a usb.
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This is the tool I use. Might be handy to you. I always tell it to use an unlisted distro.
You can also use a multiboot tool.
http://multibootusb.org/
I think it works a lot better actually, your choice.
used linux pen drive
You should still give the multiboot tool a shot. It would be foolish not to.
I found out the product number, it was a X201, and I was wondering since I want to switch to a blazing fast ssd in the future, I was wondering whether I need a motherboard with multiply sata ports to copy the binarys?
.....................What?
Is anyone else confused?
The laptop (I searched it up) is a X201 (Just wanted to state that considering that some people might know more or less about it), (This is a different question) How can I copy the laptops hard drive onto an ssd then install that?
Does that help?
You could you a utility for that but I would just back up my files onto a USB or something and do a fresh install on the SSD. You could run into problems with a full ISO copy to another disk. Swapping the drives out is easy enough though.