Robotics, Learning and Autonomy at Brown (RLAB)
Installation of Ubuntu Eee
- This is fairly straightforward but there are a few tricks.
- Be especially careful to follow all the instructions if you have the cheapest eeePC version, the 2G Surf.
- You will need:
- Another computer that you can install and run programs on.
- This is to download the new OS to and to run UNetbootin on to make the bootable USB key.
- An empty usb stick (1G or bigger, formatted to fat32) from which you will do the initial Ubuntu boot and installation.
- Go to: Ubuntu Eee download site.
- Click on "Download Now" and some links will show up in a box at the bottom of the page.
- Download Ubuntu Eee with one of the top links.
- Then install UNetbootin (the "Windows" or "Ubuntu / Linux" links a little lower down)
and follow the instructions for it
here, starting at "Install and Run."
- Insert the now bootable USB stick into a USB port on the left side your turned off Eee PC.
- Some Eee's seem unable to boot from the USB ports on the right side.
- Start up the Eee and press ESC a couple of times while the Asus boot screen is displayed.
- Select your USB stick from the list of bootable devices.
- Select your language and follow the installation instructions.
- If you have a 2G Surf, be aware that you've only got 2 gigs of hard drive and the OS takes up
1.8 gigs when you install! To prevent a lot of wasted time reinstalling:
- Choose "No Localization" on the first install screen
- Do a manual install, with an ext2 format and no swap drive
- Once you succeed, your 2gig internal drive will be nearly completely full, uninstall Open Office, Skype, etc and you can free up more than 300mB.
- Go to the Ubuntu Eee documentation site
and follow the instructions to get the "regular" desktop turned on.
- Make sure Ubuntu is working well and that you can connect to the wireless internet.
- Enable all of the repositories that are commented out in the /etc/apt/sources.list file
- Update Ubuntu using the Update Manager, but DON"T let it remove any Ubuntu-eee specific stuff (it will try!)
- Your Eee is now ready to install Player
- If you have problems with the OS, these are helpful sites: