[nzlug] Acer + Ubuntu: initial impressions.

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 19:56:45 Simon Bridge wrote:
> In my case - I can attempt to hack into the system.
> More later.
We've been having a bit of discussion about these on the DunLUG list, and I 
got to play with one on the weekend. Some points:
* Swap isn't enabled by default. It has a swap partition that doesn't have a 
UUID, and fstab expects a UUID. You need to mkswap and put the UUID it gives 
you into fstab.
* Wireless requires binary drivers and ndiswrapper, doesn't seem to speak WPA2
* / is ext2, not ext3
* All updates are turned off by default, you need to tick the boxes 
in 'software sources' to turn them on.
* The boot order is all wrong, it's something like 'network, HD, CD, USB'. 
Putting CD and HD before network greatly decreases startup time, and stops it 
getting stuck if there's a network cable plugged in.

Now that I've done these things once, doing them again takes 5 minutes, plus 
half an hour to download and install updates.

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