Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on Toshiba L300 PLSBGE
Laptop
Today I had the task to Install Ubuntu GNU / Linux on Toshiba L300
PLSBGE Laptop.
I had already installed Windows Vista Enterprise on the notebook.
Thus I used Acronis Disk Directory Suite to partition the harddrive
for Ubuntu even though I could have used the gparted included on
Ubuntu's installation CD. I've asked specificly if
I could use the Ubuntu CD to repartition my hard drive in #ubuntu
in irc.freenode.net.
The answer was positive it's absolutely safe to resize an NTFS
partition using Ubuntu's installation LiveCD and gparted. That
seems like a good news for all of us the free software users /
enthusiasts / hobbyists etc.
I hated the default Ubuntu behaviour it automatically decided to
install itself on a automatically created 2.5 GB partition.
I thought it won't be so dumb to install itself on such a tiny
partition. Well guess what I was wrong IT WAS SO DUMB!
Even though I had already 80 GB ext3 partition. Ubuntu's default
behaviour was to install on an automatically created 2.5GB
partition.
Right after the installation I was stunned just to realize there
was no free space on the drive where the dumbass installed
itself.
After that I had some issues deleting the already cretead
partitions, which for some reason messed up. Luckily the good old
fdisk fixed the situation so I could easily delete all the
partitions except the vista and recreate them again using gparted
with Ubuntu's install LiveCD. The install was completely flawless.
Everything worked out of the box, no external efforts to fix broken
stuff like usually happens in Linux fantastic! The only broken
thing was that switching to plain console with ctrl+alt+f1 would
visualize a non working display output and I couldn't see the ttys
at all. That wasn't such a hassle since the system is planned to
work only in GUI mode. I guess Ubuntu is going through a real
development with a positive end results. Even external USB printer
Canon PIXMA IP3300 worked by simply plugging it in. For some weird
reason to make the printer work correctly I had to use driver for
Canon PIXMA IP3000. Anyways it worked with it and the printer
started printing correctly even though officially on some of the
linux printers databases it's reported the printer won't work
correctly never ever.