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Ubuntu:Install 7.04 on PCG-Z600NE @Sep 2, 2007 2:51:04 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. 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. 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 |