Ubuntu:Install 7.04 on PCG-Z600NE @Sep 2, 2007 2:55:45 PM

The PCG-Z600NE would boot from the Ubuntu CD but once Linux had booted it locked up.

Linux was hanging at attempting ACPI stuff, I discovered this by removing "quiet splash " from the F6 Boot prompt, so I replaced that with "acpi=off" and Linux booted but dropped me into a shell rather than running the install.

Adding ide2=0x180,0x386 did not make the CD work.

After much head scratching I copied the contents of the CD onto a 2GB USB flash disk, booted from the CD and at the F6 Boot prompt I entered removed the "quiet splash " parameters and added "acpi=off INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sda1".

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.

Everything appears to be working, including the screen, sound, PCMCIA PC Card (it finds Sony CD-ROM and Buffalo WiFi card), ALPS glide pad, USB. Not tried firewire or Memory Stick yet. There does seem to be an issue with it not turning the laptop off when I shutdown.

Later I installed the following:

$ sudo apt-get install vlc
$ sudo apt-get install eclipse
$ sudo apt-get install autofs
$ sudo apt-get install smbfs

The PCG-Z600NE would boot from the Ubuntu CD but once Linux had booted it locked up.

Linux was hanging at attempting ACPI stuff, I discovered this by removing "quiet splash --" from the F6 Boot prompt, so I replaced that with "acpi=off" and Linux booted but dropped me into a shell rather than running the install.

Adding ide2=0x180,0x386 did not make the CD work.

After much head scratching I copied the contents of the CD onto a 2GB USB flash disk, booted from the CD and at the F6 Boot prompt I entered removed the "quiet splash --" parameters and added "acpi=off INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sda1".

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.

Everything appears to be working, including the screen, sound, PCMCIA PC Card (it finds Sony CD-ROM and Buffalo WiFi card), ALPS glide pad, USB. Not tried firewire or Memory Stick yet. There does seem to be an issue with it not turning the laptop off when I shutdown.

Later I installed the following:

$ sudo apt-get install vlc
$ sudo apt-get install eclipse
$ sudo apt-get install autofs
$ sudo apt-get install smbfs

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