Installing Ubuntu 6.06 Flight 5 on a ThinkPad T60
Installation of Ubuntu 6.04 Flight 5 on a T60 (2623D6U).
The Ubuntu 5.10 installer did not recognize the network card (Intel 82573L), so I decided to try 6.04.
WARNING: THESE ARE PRELIMINARY NOTES. MY INSTALL IS NOT COMPLETE YET.
Installation of Ubuntu 6.04 alpha Flight 5
- First, you should look at Installation of Ubuntu 5.04 on a ThinkPad Template:T43 (1875). There is information on preserving the functionality of the ThinkVantage button, which I did not follow.
- You should probably create the IBM Rescue CDs before you begin. I expected the rescue partition to be able to restore my system to the factory default state if I messed up, but I was wrong.
- Downloaded CD ISO of Ubuntu's Dapper flight 5 (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5).
- I used the installer's partitioner. I eliminated the Windows partition, left the IBM recovery partition alone, and created four partitions for the Linux system: / (8GB), /usr (8GB), swap (2.5GB), and /home (56.4 GB).
- I let the installer install GRUB in the MBR. I kind of regret doing that because now the ThinkVantage button does not work properly. See the T43 instructions on the alternative methods.
- The installer recognized the network card (unlike Ubuntu 5.10).
- The blue "ThinkVantage" button now goes to GRUB instead of IBM's Rescue System. You can get to the IBM partition from the GRUB menu by choosing the "Windows NT" partition.
Fixes
- X wouldn't start. There is no support for the ATI x1300. I changed the Device driver in xorg.conf from "ati" to "vesa" and made the maximum resolution 1024x768 with a color depth of 24, which at least works.
- I did a network upgrade of all packages (on March 23, 2006), and this killed X. So I reinstalled Ubuntu.
- The stock kernel does not appear to support SMP (to support the dual core processor), so I will rebuild the kernel ([1]). I set the processor type to "Pentium M", set SMP to "y", and the number of processors to "2".
