Xubuntu:Install 8.04 on PCG-Z600NE @May 31, 2008 3:39:49 PM

The Sony PCG-Z600NE is a Pentium III 500MHz laptop, originally bought with Windows 98 SE. This machine's original 128MB RAM has been upgraded to 256MB.

The PCG-Z600NE would not boot from the Xubuntu 8.04 CD in the Sony PCGA-CD51/A CD-ROM, so the Smart Boot Manager boot loader from install/sbm.bin on the Xubuntu CD was copied onto a floppy disk (remember them?) using "dd if=sbm.bin of=/dev/floppy bs=512" and booted to the CD from there.

Linux was hanging at because it's too old for ACPI, so I appended "acpi=off" using the F6 Boot prompt.

But the drivers for the PCMCIA PC Card CD-ROM were not being loaded, so I copied the contents of the CD onto a 1GB USB flash disk, booted from the CD using SBM and at the F6 Boot prompt I entered appended appended "INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdb1" along with the "acpi=off".

The install, although rather slow off the USB flash disk, went smoothly.

At the next boot I had to edit the grub configuration to add "acpi=off", and when the laptop booted I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to include that option.

The laptop does not shutdown.

The Sony PCG-Z600NE is a Pentium III 500MHz laptop, originally bought with Windows 98 SE. This machine's original 128MB RAM has been upgraded to 256MB.

The PCG-Z600NE would not boot from the Xubuntu 8.04 CD in the Sony PCGA-CD51/A CD-ROM, so the Smart Boot Manager boot loader from install/sbm.bin on the Xubuntu CD was copied onto a floppy disk (remember them?) using {{{"dd if=sbm.bin of=/dev/floppy bs=512"}}} and booted to the CD from there.

Linux was hanging at because it's too old for ACPI, so I appended "{{{acpi=off}}}" using the F6 Boot prompt.

But the drivers for the PCMCIA PC Card CD-ROM were not being loaded, so I copied the contents of the CD onto a 1GB USB flash disk, booted from the CD using SBM and at the F6 Boot prompt I entered appended appended "{{{INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdb1}}}" along with the "{{{acpi=off}}}".

The install, although rather slow off the USB flash disk, went smoothly.

At the next boot I had to edit the grub configuration to add "acpi=off", and when the laptop booted I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to include that option.

The laptop does not shutdown.

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