Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10 on my Samsung NC10

  1. Created an installation USB flash drive using Ubuntu's startup disc creator and the ISO for Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10
  2. Booted from it
  3. Clicked "Install Ubuntu-Netbook"
  4. Connected to my WLAN using the icon in the upper-right corner
  5. Checked "Download updates while installing"
  6. Checked "Install this third-party software"
  7. Clicked "Forward"
  8. Selected "Specify partitions manually (advanced)"
  9. Clicked "Forward"
  10. Partitioned my hard drive with a 20 "GB" (20*10^9 bytes) ext4 primary partition mounted at '/', a 6 "GB" swap area, and the rest as an ext4 primary partition mounted at /media/sda3
  11. Clicked "Install Now"
  12. Selected the Denver timezone and clicked Forward
  13. Selected the default normal USA keyboard layout and clicked Forward
  14. Entered the "Who are you?" screen as follows:
  15. Your name: Mike Linford
  16. Your computer's name: mmlnetbook
  17. Pick a username: mike
  18. Require my password to log in
  19. Clicked Forward
  20. Waited forever
  21. Restarted and ran updates