Installing Ubuntu 9.10 from a USB Stick
Linux distributions tend to come as ISO images – files which are images of CDs/DVDs. I’ve always burned the images to a disk to install, but I’ve been meaning to try setting up a bootable USB stick instead. Better for the environment, right? More importantly, I never seem to have a blank CD knocking about [...]
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Ubuntu 9.04 Teething Troubles
Update: This seems to be a fairly Dell-specific problem, but there just might be a fix, as detailed in this ubuntuforums thread. Long story short: you need to update your menu.lst file (mine’s in /boot/grub/menu.lst), and append the entries i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop to the line beginning with the word kernel for your current kernel [...]
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Flickering Wireless LED in Ubuntu 8.10
A quick solution to that darned flashing wireless light in Ubuntu 8.10 – works on my Dell Vostro anyway. This solution didn’t work for me – I had to make a slight adjustment to the directories updated. It does give some background on how it works if you’re interested though. Save the following file as [...]
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